Modifying Another Word

• hideously: It is such a hideously Ugly Car, we even have a newsletter we publish that provides us with lots of laughs.

• downright: Additionally, the list has been given some spice by including a number of questions which are either bad, unpleasant or downright ugly!

• decidedly: Their heads were too big for their bodies and their faces were decidedly ugly to look upon.

• damn: Also, the phones that you need for this service are enormous, very heavy and damn ugly too.

• incredibly: Yvain commences his quest by meeting a lady at a fountain, directed there by an incredibly ugly and monstrous Lord of the Animals.

• plain: The regulators ' role will become one of helping to transfer best practice from the good to the bad and the plain ugly.

Preposition: as

• hell: I don't think I need to tell you they're ugly as hell too.

• sin: You can be as ugly as sin, keep your clothes on if you choose and still be a star.

Modifies a noun

• duckling: Half soup, half stew, its " ugly duckling " looks hide the culinary swan beneath.

• deuce: By its pay payoff jumps to coins ugly deuces on software inc.

• mug: The only place I want to see your ugly mug is on the playing field.

• sister: The Beast roars, the wicked witch casts her spells, the ugly sisters do their best to cause confusion.. .

• head: However, the motor car started to rear its ugly head.

• scar: The 50-mile long ' Expressway ' would carve a long ugly scar through that part of our countryside adjacent to the existing M6.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: I decide to shelter in the relative calm of the British Council stand in case the scene turns ugly.

• look: Used too frequently they not only look ugly, they deter readers.

• get: I done got so ugly I don't even know myself!

• feel: Some days i would wake up feeling so ugly that all I could do was cry.

• win: He was, however, encouraged by his team's ability to " win ugly " .

• become: It is at this point that things just might become very ugly.