Ug″ly (?), a. [Compar.Uglier (?); superl.Ugliest.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). ��. Cf. Awe.] 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser.
Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak.
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.
2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.