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111ugly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. repulsive (see ugliness); disagreeable, unpleasant; mean, hostile, quarrelsome. See unsavoriness, contention. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ill favored] Syn. unsightly, loathsome, hideous, homely,… …
112unsafe — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insecure, precarious, dangerous, risky, perilous; untrustworthy. See danger. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. hazardous, perilous, jeopardous, risky, threatening, treacherous, fearsome, unreliable,… …
113unsavoriness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Unpleasant taste Nouns unsavoriness, tastelessness, insipidity; unpalatableness, distaste fulness, roughness, acridity, acridness, acerbity, sourness; gall and wormwood. See dislike, discontent. Verbs be… …
114ugly — [13] Ugly originally meant ‘horrible, frightening’; ‘offensive to the sight’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 14th century. The word was borrowed from Old Norse uggligr, a derivative of the verb ugga ‘fear’. In the early 1930s it …
115ill-favored — adj Ugly; unprepossessing. Oddly enough, the father had less trouble in marrying off his ill favored daughter than her prettier sister …
116droob — [dru:b] noun Austral. informal an unprepossessing or contemptible person. Origin 1930s: perh. related to droop …
117ugly — a. 1. Unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill looking, ill favored, unprepossessing, uncomely, unlovely. 2. Frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, grewsome, loathsome, monstrous. 3. Cross, ill tempered, cross grained, spiteful …
118homely — adjective she s rather homely Syn: unattractive, plain, unprepossessing, unlovely, ill favored, ugly; informal not much to look at Ant: attractive …
119ill-favored — adjective he was particularly ill favored after a night of drunken debauchery Syn: unattractive, plain, ugly, homely, unprepossessing, displeasing; informal not much to look at Ant: attractive …
120plain — 1. adjective 1) it was plain that something was wrong Syn: obvious, clear, crystal clear, evident, apparent, manifest, patent; discernible, perceptible, noticeable, recognizable, unmistakable, transparent; pronounced, marked, striking …
