English-German translations for ugly

• hässlich
  Die hässliche Seite der Globalisierung heißt Terrorismus. Terrorism is the ugly face of globalisation.
  Europa hat seiner Geschichte heute eine hässliche Seite hinzugefügt. Europe has written an ugly page of its history today.
  Viertens, das hässliche Entlein des Gemeinschaftshaushalts: die externen Politikbereiche. Fourthly, the ‘ugly duckling’ of the Community budget: external actions.
• abscheulich
• garstig
• schiech

Definition of ugly

• Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing
• Displeasing to the ear or some other sense
• Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome
• Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss
• Ugliness
• An ugly person or thing
• To make ugly (sometimes with ''up''

Examples

• He played an ugly trick on us
• an ugly temper; to feel ugly
• an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound
• With all this competition, expect things to get ugly

Related words

• smugly
• snugly
• butt-ugly
• fugly
• ugly as sin
• ugly duckling
• ugly milk-cap
• ugly one
• rear its ugly head