as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an ill-favored and yapping little dog that reminded people a lot of its owner
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Adjective
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025 -
His users are the ones that will suffer the most when the platform gets uglier.—
Scott Nover,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.—
Eric Tegler,
Popular Mechanics,
1 Oct. 2019
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His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
1 Feb. 2018
Adjective
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
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And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Newsom has ordered an investigation, but this looks like grotesque mismanagement.—
The Editors,
National Review,
13 Jan. 2025
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Where the r-slur is concerned, one recalls Trump’s grotesque imitation in 2015 of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital joint condition.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Ill-favored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-favored. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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