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unugly en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + ugly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Not aesthetically displeasing; not ugly.
    • The Caldwells decided, at least for the moment, to be accommodating, unugly Americans. They picked up their pastis and their menus and reestablished themselves at the table across the aisle. 2000, Charles Gustafson, A Visa for Ahmad: Escape from Libya, page 94:
    • Well, I lay it down, first, that a book quite unornamented can look actually and positively beautiful, and not merely un-ugly, if it be, so to say, architecturally good, which, by the by, need not add much to its price […] 1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book: