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uglisome en · ADJ

Etymology

From ugly + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by ugliness
   • Devilish heads, five cubits in bigness from brow to chin, were carven in high relief along the five other walls: thirteen heads in all, very deformed and uglisome, laying out their tongues; and on the end of each tongue was stood a lamp brightly burning, and the eyes of the great faces were looking-glasses nicely cut up with facets to throw back the rays of the lamps, so that the whole banquet-room was lit with a brilliance of lamplight. 2016, E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses:
   • The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out. 2011, Deeanne Gist, The Trouble with Brides:
   • The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out. 2005, Deeanne Gist, A Bride Most Begrudging:
   • And treated our fathers like scum, / Those uglisome messiahs that Bade us come, [...] 2013, Chisom Ohuaka, First Gong Vol.3:

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