Clues for the word "UGLY"
We've had 183 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 546 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on December 25, 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
- Like a certain duckling
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2025
- Daily American - December 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
- Daily American - October 18, 2025
- Daily American - October 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 18, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 15, 2025
- Daily American - July 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2025
- Daily American - June 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 24, 2025
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