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UGLY

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ugly I. adjectiv

1. urât, pocit, hâd, slut; (despre cineva sau ceva) respingător, josnic;

(as) ugly as sin urât foc, urât ca noaptea;

to grow ugly a se urâţi / sluţi.

2. periculos, ameninţător; rău;

(fam.) an ugly customer a) boxer periculos; b) (prin extensie) un tip periculos;

ugly weather timp urât;

ugly wound rană urâtă;

ugly incident incident regretabil.

3. (amer. fam.) prost dispus.

◊ (despre persoane) to cut up ugly a tuna, a se zborşi, a face urât.

ugly II. substantiv

(fam.) (un) urât, persoană urâtă.

◊ (sl.) to come the ugly a ameninţa.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I crawled up from the floor, and saw my face in the glass, so swollen, red, and ugly that it almost frightened me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The room into which we were shown was that in which the crime had been committed, but no trace of it now remained save an ugly, irregular stain upon the carpet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man who could eat a whole mountain of bread.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“Fair and sweet I would fain be for your dear sake, my lord, but old I am and ugly, and the knights would laugh should you lay lance in rest in such a cause.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ugly wretch!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

The whole incident left a most ugly impression upon my mind, and I was not sorry next day to leave Donnithorpe behind me, for I felt that my presence must be a source of embarrassment to my friend.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told her he was rather an ugly man, but quite a gentleman; and that he treated me kindly, and I was content.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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