Clues for the word "UGLY"
We've had 182 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 516 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on April 12, 2025.
Definition of ugly
- superl. - Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
- superl. - Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
- superl. - Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
- n. - A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
- v. t. - To make ugly.
Referring Clues
- Nasty
- Hideous
- Like many Halloween masks
- 94-Across's opposite
- Unsightly
- Unappealing
- Like a gargoyle
- Like a storied duckling
- Unfair?
- Like a 29-Down
- Beyond homely
- "This is going to get ___"
- Hostile
- Hard on the eyes
- Hard to watch
- Like gargoyles
- Like Cinderella's stepsisters
- Optically offensive
- Far from fetching
- Not at all beautiful
- Disagreeable
- Like the fabled duckling
- Hardly handsome
- Gorgonian
- Hard to look at
- Quarrelsome
- Like Hans Christian Andersen's duckling
- "The ___ American"
- Really hard on the eyes
- Very unattractive
- Objectionable in appearance
- Very unpleasant
- Like some crowds
- Awful, weatherwise
- Like a hag
- Like the stepsisters in "Cinderella"
- Like a crone
- "The ___ Duckling"
- Homely
- "Coyote ___" (2000 Piper Perabo film)
- Difficult to watch
- Nasty, as a mood
- Nasty, as a fight
- Mean, as some crowds
- Like a smear campaign
- Hostile, as a crowd
- Mean, as a crowd
- Far from fair
- Like a clock-stopping face
- Like a fabled duckling
- Repulsive
- Like the Emmy-winning Betty
- Unpleasant to view
- "The ___ American" (Brando film)
- Aesthetically offensive
- "The ___ Duckling "(Andersen story)
- Definitely not pretty
- Like a rout, for the losing team
- Uncivil
- Not easy on the eyes
- Like an extremely unpleasant situation
- Grotesque
- Not pretty
- Unattractive
- Like the storied duckling
- Like the losing team's play in a bad loss
- Like a 16-Across
- Like a storybook duckling
- "Yo mama's so ___, her face is closed on weekends"
- Extremely unattractive
- In pre-swan mode
- Pre-swan
- Unattractive, and then some
- Preswan
- The ____ (1997 horror film)
- Now this could get ___!
- Likely to break out into fighting
- "The ___ Duckling" (fairy tale)
- Like an eyesore
- Deficient in beauty
- Like some moods
- Hardly fair?
- Far from fetching, as a fabled duckling
- Frightful
- Threatening,as weather
- Threatening, as weather
- "This could get ___"
- Like Quasimodo
- Like a vulture, compared to a swan
- Sea, in a gale
- Unbecoming
- Like the Wicked Witch of the West
- Unlovely
- "___ Betty"
- Far from handsome
- Hardly fair
- Unaesthetic
- Like Andersen's duckling
- Unpretty
- Like Hans Christian Andersen's "Duckling"
- Far from beautiful
- Like Hans' duckling
- Nothing to look at
- Vicious, as a fight
- TV's "___ Betty"
- Quite unattractive
- Far from attractive
- Quarrelsome, as a mood
- Ill-favored
- Unpleasant
- Like Christmas sweaters, stereotypically
- Not attractive
- Opposite of handsome, as a famous duckling
- Like a fairy tale duckling
- Offensive to the sight
- Like some truth
- Unpleasant, as a situation
- Reprehensible
- Isaac Brock's "Casanova"
- Isaac Brock side project ___ Casanova
- Sevendust "Next" song
- "Love Rears Its ___ Head" Living Colour
- Horrible
- No oil painting
- Unprepossessing nasty guy belts lecturer
- Left the bad guy out for being nasty
- Morally repugnant and far from fair
- Offensive
- Most cruel guys, maybe - don't tangle with them
- Unprepossessing, lowly - extremely unpleasant
- Unpleasing to the eye
- Community centre, by golly, oddly unattractive
- Cinderella's sisters were so unfair
- Plain sailing finally during month without leadership
- Huge lady's headless! Not pretty
- Unfair utterance by caveman put heartlessly
- Unpleasant to look at
- Clock-stopping
- Fairy tale, The ___ Duckling
- Yet such a description may be fair
- Funny guy hanging round student is loathsome
- Guy dancing is about 50, that's plain
- Plain fruit, reportedly
- Funny girl's involved with us yet - could be Cinderella's
- Offensive to one's sight or other senses
- Not at all handsome
- ___ cry (sobbing that results in unpleasant contortions of the face)
- Nasty thug, lying, is leaving thing out
- "Things might get ___"
- Hardly looked upon with pleasure
- Apparently unpleasant!
- Andersen title adjective
- Far from pretty
- Hard to see?
- Looking nasty enough to plug?
- Hardly pretty
- Having the nasty aspect of a thug, lying
- Like Betty Suarez
- Its letters aptly appear in "unsightly"
- Like a witch, stereotypically
- Highly quarrelsome
- Like the duckling in a story
- Like H.C. Andersen's duckling
- Like a typical Halloween mask
- Like a nasty mood
- Sounds fruity and doesn't look good!
- Like an unpleasant rumor
- Unpleasant in appearance
- Like a fabled triumphant duckling, once
- Like eyesores
- More like a duckling than a cygnet?
- Way some situations turn
- Word before "duckling" or "cry"
- Like some Christmas sweaters
- "The ___ Cry" (Danielle Henderson memoir)
- Pretty ___ (oxymoron)
- Turn ___ (become unpleasant)
- Like some holiday sweaters
- ___ Christmas sweater
- Not much to look at
- Like many Christmas sweaters
- Like a literary duckling
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 17, 2025
- Daily American - March 17, 2025
- Daily American - March 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2025
- LA Times - January 01, 2025
- LA Times - December 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 17, 2024
- New York Times - November 28, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2024
- New York Times - September 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 29, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 13, 2024
- New York Times - July 04, 2024
- LA Times - June 30, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 03, 2024
- Family Time - May 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2024
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