look ugly

Frequency: 7.845.6 per million words

Refers to the external appearance of being unattractive.

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Examples (20)

  • That old sofa looks ugly in our modern living room.
  • The situation began to look ugly as the crowd grew restless.
  • She worried that the dress made her look ugly.
  • Things started to look very ugly when the negotiations broke down.
  • The bruise on my leg looks pretty ugly right now.
  • If the protests continue, the whole affair could look extremely ugly.
  • From the outside, the concrete building looks quite ugly.
  • He warned that the political climate might look even uglier in the coming months.
  • I don't think the new car design looks ugly at all.
  • With tensions rising, the meeting started to look rather ugly.
  • The scar might look ugly, but it tells a story.
  • No one wanted the confrontation to look ugly, so they tried to de-escalate.
  • Without any decoration, the room looked bare and ugly.
  • The dispute over the property began to look increasingly ugly.
  • Some modern art looks ugly to traditionalists.
  • From an outside perspective, the internal conflict definitely began to look ugly.
  • The rust makes the bike look old and ugly.
  • The public reaction to the scandal made the company's future look very ugly.
  • He thought the statue looked ugly in the town square.
  • Before the riot, the atmosphere in the street started to look quite ugly.