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The word "ugly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is unpleasant in form, or something that is considered socially unacceptable. Example sentence: The painting was so ugly that I had to turn away.
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Ugly
adjective
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
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That's the ugly side of the wealth gap in action.
His round was soured by an ugly double bogey six on the last.
It is disproportionate, ugly and tragic and will not do Israel any good in the long run".
Even when we tried to draw on the wisdom of three deeply experienced men who proffered policies that would put the issue beyond ugly politics, that too failed.
Clearly, it's time to take a stand against such examples of bad planning – not to mention all those really ugly buildings we're forced to walk past on the way to work every day.
The move unnerved civil rights campaigners in the a deeply segregated stated with an ugly history of voter intimidation.
This was a budget of the good, the bad and the ugly.
Ancelotti would lament how his players "made more mistakes than usual because of the pressure Juventus put us under" and the inquest into the decisive goal promised to be ugly.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an ugly mouthful, and not just in name.
Whether or not he calculated the result of the Birmingham speech in advance - there were few who believed he did not - they were easily calculable and the outcome was ugly.
Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
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