Sentence examples for a rather ugly from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rather ugly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not aesthetically pleasing, often in a subjective manner.
Example: "The painting was a rather ugly depiction of the landscape, lacking any charm or beauty."
Alternatives: "somewhat unattractive" or "fairly unsightly".

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In Windows 95, it was a rather ugly button.

Of an 1820s jug, he said, "There's a merman, or a rather ugly mermaid".

The poem also contains a character that I refer to, in a rather ugly, dehumanizing way, as "a wandering tramp".

It looks as if all I will have is the inside branches left, a rather ugly sight.

The former DPP told The World at One on Radio 4: "That is a rather ugly argument.

Tomorrow morning's headlines will all be about the comedy of the cat that never was, as opposed to a rather ugly day of foreigner-bashing.

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And, predictably, as I type that he has a rather large, rather ugly heave outside off.

A medievalist by training and an iconoclast by temperament, Taylor turned the Roman court and garden into a large and rather ugly public restaurant.

And like those full beards and handlebar mustaches, they have a tendency to be rather ugly.

Nor does that comparison apply only to an original, tiny Mini; even compared with the first of the BMW-era cars, launched in 2001, this is a brash, coarse and rather ugly creation.

Why such an apparently arbitrary and rather ugly number should be inscribed in the cosmological DNA is one of life's great mysteries.

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