Sentence examples for ugly being from inspiring English sources

A dialogue by Plato, written in the fourth century B.C., refers to her as "beautiful"; a later author insisted that she was "very ugly, being short and swarthy".

A pretty young gal gets swept away in a tornado, lands in a colorful magical land and squashes (literally) the one ugly being around.

I suffered intense racism there for about ten years, violent and abusive, being asked, "Why are you here?", being called ugly, being called a "fat Paki," being the butt of all the jokes.

The dwarf lord Alberich, who forges the dire object at the heart of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," is an ugly being who yearns for beauty.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting.

Because ugly is human.

Winning ugly is forgivable.

So how ugly was it?

Ugly is an angry book, I say.

What was once ugly is now very, very competitive.

Being ugly — is that one of the human rights, too?