| 单词 | ugly |
| 例句 | He expects some will think the people ugly, unfinished, but he hopes they will be seen as real people, and the painting as sincere. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z You’ll be a good boy or girl in the eyes of copy editors, and will have avoided a sibilant, which many readers find ugly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The other woman put a sailor cap on Klaus, who gazed in one of the mirrors, astonished at how ugly he looked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She swore me to absolute silence, saying above all else those men must not connect us with their ugly deed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was gray in the black of his body and legs, and each of the eyes on his ugly, pin- cered head was milky white. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Carmen stepped back and stared at the ugly tank, as if she was seeing it for the first time. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z We had missed the mooring on the first go-round, and the captain was in an ugly mood. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know he’s sick, but I am tired of his ugly moods.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “A Yoruba goat from the bush with two children from two different men. I hear she is old and ugly.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “That’s for Brown Ben Plumm. When next I see his ugly ' face I will open him from throat to groin and rip out his black heart.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And when I came up to the cage to see these ugly bloodsucking creatures, I had to look right into this little kid’s face that had a smirk on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “He’s about as ugly a crow bait as I ever saw,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, I hated it, Mary Anne. I hated having those luscious, gorgeous hunks of womanflesh throwing themselves on me. I would have preferred ugly male midgets.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama rifles through it and objects to a couple of T-shirts that are too expensive, or too ugly, and we head to the checkout. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z With his bulging brow and mismatched eyes, he was still the ugliest man she had ever chanced to look upon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My cars felt hot Sloan handed the photo to his ugly buddies, who snickered and started ripping it up to make spit wads. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Everybody started going inside the ugly little house. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But for some reason, right now, in this extremely ugly booth at IHOP, he was smiling at me like there was something to celebrate. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He blundered into the bathroom while Adam was bathing and saw the ugly bullet scar and heard himself ask against his will, “Father, what’s that scar?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Best, a horrifyingly ugly, cross old woman with two gold headed canes, vowed through her whiskers and toothless gums that he looked just as bad as she had expected. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When a baby is born you shouldn’t say discouraging things about it like “Hey, I seen prettier dogs than that baby,” or “Maybe he ain’t ugly, maybe he’s just inside out.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re so ugly, when you were born the doctor smacked your face instead of your butt.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He was rocking backward and forward, shaking his ugly head. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “That’s right. I’m easy to find, easy to see. I guarantee nobody else is gonna be wearing a hat this ugly.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z She made hard ugly noises because she hated herself for crying, yet couldn’t help it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If a girl was thin in Yana Urku, people said she looked as sickly and ugly as a dying tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when I’m having lunch with Hannah’s Nana, I can still remember his shout and the ugly twist of his mouth as he said he wasn’t coming. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As ugly as she was, I thought privately, she was lucky to get a husband above or beneath her station. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites would have found it difficult to recognize this rather sullen and unsatisfactory child, with the ugly face, who did not disclose to anybody that he was living on dreams and prayers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When he talked, he had to shout over the ugly whining of the saw. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I insult his manhood, his boring wife, his ugly child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t see the ceilings dusty with flies, the ugly maroon walls, the bottles and sticky spoons. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why? Why would you want to be ugly? You were doctors, so there was nothing wrong with your brains, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “My father threw me down a well the day I was bom, but I was so ugly that the water witch who lived down there spat me back.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is bigger and uglier than Gatlinburg, and has better parking, and so of course gets more visitors. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He came hurtling down at a long-slanted dive, his ugly head outstretched, his wings all but shut against his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He was neither handsome nor ugly, distinguished only by the malice that burned in his gray eyes, and that serpent smile of cunning and venom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘I am afraid that’s true,’ said Merry, ‘though I don’t know what I said. I had an ugly dream, which I can’t remember. I went to pieces. I don’t know what came over me.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had heard himself discussed once, amongst his own people, and the memory of it lingered, like an ugly picture in the mind of a child. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Eating alone had reminded her of the days after her birthday, trapped as an ugly when everyone knew she should be pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “She does not look very ugly for a demoness,” Lefty said to Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words bit into me, making a day inside an ugly idea all around. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Who would dare to interrupt the mighty shaman but an ugly, scorned girl? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z If a product or enterprise doesn’t constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In their stead, far uglier images plagued him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Those are the most beautiful feet! They must be Balder’s feet—nothing on Balder could be ugly.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Even Pixie's furry sunflower bag was from a world where nothing ugly's allowed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Iron Emmett rode at the head of the column, mounted on the ugliest horse Jon had ever seen, a shaggy beast that looked to be all hair and hooves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They don’t want people to know what it was like before the operation. They want to keep you hating yourselves. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get used to ugly faces, normal faces.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a bare and ugly place, with a mean little grate that would not allow a good fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "You sit in council and talk of ugly women and steel kisses, and now you expect me to be-lieve that you tried to protect the girl? How big a fool do you take me for?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It didn’t occur to me until later that dwelling in the realm of the spirits could bring danger, especially to an ugly girl in a time when the rains didn’t come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A big newspaper out east once held a contest to find the ugliest, most forlorn, most godforsaken town in the whole country, and it declared Battle Mountain the winner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I could remember the scars, thick and ugly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The old prison wall was studded with nine of these towers; there was a total of eighteen towers, including the ugly new square ones around Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My shoulders were like bouncing all over the place as I hiccuped and snorted—just ugly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I look at the ugly little statue, and I start to giggle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But I decided to save my riales for my first pair of shoes, because my bare feet looked ugly next to all my classmates’ shoes and boots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "I once told Ned Stark that when you find yourself naked with an ugly woman, the only thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Flashes of ugly flags with skulls and bones, swords slashing at people’s throats, and long knives cutting out our hearts edge their way into my consciousness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s him,” I said, “the ugly one with the red shirt.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “They’re crazy, if you ask me—living rough and staying ugly. But they know more about the wild than most city pretties. It’s kind of admirable, really.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Nearly due west the broad swath of the marching Orcs tramped its ugly slot; the sweet grass of Rohan had been bruised and blackened as they passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The soup actually had hardly any taste, but at the same time it tasted really awful, because you knew that in it was a strange, ugly creature. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His Noise gets uglier, louder, but his face is all blank like a terror from a dream. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Her ugly nickname sounded strange coming from a pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I knew it was only a matter of time before it bubbled up into something ugly. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “This gets ugly, I’m shooting from close range. Maybe your guards get me or my guys, but no way you’re going to dodge this bullet.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Katherine ain't got no reason to believe that I wouldn't ask such a thing of her, and it makes me feel ugly to know that she thinks I would. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He smiled as ugly a smile as Jon had ever seen and made his way to the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along the top. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His ugly spotted dog stood on his chest, lapping at the blood pulsing from his neck, and every so often ripping a mouthful of flesh out of the dead man's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If you looked at all this with peasant eyes,” he said of the view in front of us, “the scene is violent and ugly.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He was an ugly dog, but already, I loved him with all my heart. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He wore cheap, printed Terylene bush shirts over his white mundus and the ugliest plastic sandals that were available in the market. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They talk the ugly talk and hope that some of it gets under the skin of their opponents, that it sticks there. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Crease by crease he unfolded it, until at last there came to view eight small misshapen seed pearls, as ugly and gray as little ulcers, flattened and almost valueless. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z As an ugly, Peris had made fun of them—but he hadn’t waited a moment to join in the fun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Whoever wrote that gross thing on her geography book had written on her history book, too. suck me off it said in ugly blue letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And I’m afraid of being the reason it turns ugly. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The day I had waited for so long had turned black and ugly. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One new legend towered above all the rest Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn’t be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It got a mite uglier than that,” I said. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I could feel them course their way down my cheek, exposing the ugly, ruined skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They welled up out of a dry unhappy place in her, the barren back-forty of a soul hurt by the savagery of the world to its ugly women. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He will shake his fist and say ugly drunken words that I would not wish you to know about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And Samuel Hamilton resolved to help greatly with the Salinas Valley Eden, to make a secret guilt-payment for his ugly thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol receives several dictionaries, several calculators, several Cross pen-and-pencil sets, several ugly sweaters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He would do as well as any and better than most, the ugly girl decided. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘And you, Ferny,’ he said, ‘put your ugly face out of sight, or it will get hurt.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Jackson gives Katherine a smile of thanks and an ugly feeling rises up in me, part jealousy and part shame and part anger at myself for getting just a tad bit hysterical. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The ugly gray walls did nothing to mar her perfect cinnamon complexion, although it made most people look like walking zombies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Don’t be weird, Shay. I’m an ugly, you’re an ugly. We will be for two more weeks. It’s no big deal or anything.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s hard to explain, but when she said it, it was an ugly thing to say. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “You don’t mean we’d keep an old ugly dog like that. One that will come in and steal meat right out of the house.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Big and ugly and shy in the bargain. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They throw mud at me, claiming it will darken my ugly white skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ugly ones and Sarah with her big belly were to stay in the kitchen to assist the cook, and wash up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ugly red satchel hangs from my shoulder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The boys would see if he was tough or weak, if he was cool or a square, and the girls would look to see if he was cute or ugly. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to see his ugly face, to wrap her arms around him and press herself against his chest, but she knew that if she turned around Ser Jorah would be gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She wondered how much of being ugly was just an awkward age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He beat her because of me, because he thought I was the daughter of the fat, ugly pig man. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandonment has opened the door to the dark and ugly basement where the monsters have been waiting. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He knew I might be an ugly baby, a baby with a tremendous number of problems, but he also knew his son was a fighter. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Which I guess made PJ the ugly one, since he wore braces and didn't have dimples. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z When I was done, I gathered the worry dolls and crawled under the ugly flower print comforter. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z If I face the truth, as ugly as it is, she’s right. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “There’s no need for an ugly mob scene.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Rose had opened it and stuck her big ugly head through the crack. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “You gonna leave me out to dry like this. Wait till later, you ugly, stupid black thing.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z There was the familiar gate, the ugly street, reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I would begin by holding her over the fire and cooking the ugly hole between her legs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had his ugly way with that girl in the alley behind the supermarket, in the night. Right? You know what I mean?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s the ugly truth he saw in Ithaca. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He made himself more comfortable on the ugly grave. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Charles was scared that Emma wouldn’t accept him—not just because of the religion question, but also because of his ugly nose. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And then along came this spotted one that was just raw-boned and ugly enough to make a good milk cow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z A lipstick in the ugliest shade of coral, which she smeared all over her mouth, puckering her lips and prancing around my room, telling me to kiss her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The uniform was an ugly mustard shirt with a chocolate-colored skirt and brown shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes and the whites of his eyes were red-stained and ugly. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Debt was an ugly word and an ugly concept to Olive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I needed his stories, for the times when he told them were the only times I truly forgot myself, forgot how hideously ugly I was. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Because I’m hairy, ugly, dirty, stooped, snaggle-toothed, and gray. And also I feel sick from the radiation; I think I’m going to die.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z "That locker room is downright ugly. I like the challenge of making it beautiful. But Rose, if we do this, will you get in trouble?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It didn’t fit, it was ugly and uncomfortable, and they all hated it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When she could see again, Tally found an aging ugly crouching next to her, against the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that the dress was ugly—in fact, the beautiful wax-print pattern was easily the nicest thing she’d ever worn—but her legs felt trapped beneath the rippling fabric. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t like it anyway. It’s ugly now that I really look at it. How can anyone wear this color?” she says and walks away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Only truth I know is I don't want to be in here with you ugly dudes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Her two ugly sisters hopped on top of the seats on either side of her and crawled toward me like huge nasty lizards. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Your ugly little secret is safe with me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Your deer are much prettier than our ugly buffaloes,” she said, turning to the prairies for help and feeling glad that she had read one of the boys’ books in which Jo delighted. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z This was really going to be ugly, because I could quickly calculate the trajectory of his intended punch, and I estimated the point of impact would be somewhere between my tenth and eleventh stitches. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On his left cheek, an ugly raised scar ran all the way from the corner of his eye into the depths of his dark beard. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Unlike an ugly party, there’d never be any fights, or even arguments. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An older ugly was running the place, but he wasn’t as scary as the Boss. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Paul peeled off his ugly green hat and placed it carefully on the ground. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There were ugly red marks all around her neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her enemy had a face: ugly dishwater eyes and cratered skin, with a few limp locks of hair floating around her cheeks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They had been standing in the mud surrounded by the ugly barracks, and Papa had been locked up in the stockade. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I listened to shouts, to ugly names, while I smiled and said “Thank you.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An ugly brown carpet lay on the floor, and on it stood a large armchair covered in itchy-looking red material, and several smaller chairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The two of us spend about four hours in the cold digging for those tough old vegetables, planted last summer, until we have a gnarled and ugly pile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps they only think of him as an ugly young man who was good at games. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “How come they make you people so ugly in Jackson?” he demanded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were as choice a lot of mercenaries as ever graced a dungeon, each uglier than the last. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His ugly face jeered as he saw that Ku-Ang was trapped. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “They shore hiring ’em ugly lately,” he said. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The wall, even in its punctured and broken state, was still an ugly scar across Berlin. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When it was time to go, her mom came up from behind her with an incredibly ugly stocking cap and pulled it over her head. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Instead of giving her a good hard crack across that ugly face of hers to knock the blinders from her eyes, he would find himself squeezing her shoulder or giving her a hug. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That’s got to be the world’s ugliest kid, he thought, looking her over with genuine affection. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z At sight of the heavy, lined face, so ugly and so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I had been ugly as far back as I could remember. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z "You made me give Astrid Pompadour a pig nose. I think that was rather ugly." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And pounding forward with a rush came the ugly Dilemma, snorting steam and looking intently for someone to catch on the ends of his long pointed horns, while his hoofs bit eagerly at the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Hamlet, it seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trusts only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I say, “I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Because it was always assumed that we would lead professional lives, my brother and I were free to grow as plump and ugly as we liked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The mamas still made fun of me for having an ape husband, but at least they couldn’t make fun of me anymore for having an ugly ape husband. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And at the thrift shop in Fairview, as I watched her laughing with the owner about a big ugly hat somebody brought in, I felt like I was seeing her for the first time. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He had red hair and wore ugly black glasses. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Up close, it is filled with garbage, clothes and furniture, ugly catfish and eels. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The crowd began yelling and booing, and I saw that matters could turn extremely ugly if the crowd did not control itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve stared into the Round Pool, and it’s hard to tell — the water’s never still — but I think I’m ugly. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z In the OASIS, the fat could become thin, the ugly could become beautiful, and the shy, extroverted. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She sobbed brokenly, her throat an ugly gash, like a second, red, smiling mouth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The scarier, the smellier, the uglier, the better. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Across the street. I saw Elizabeth being chased by those ugly people. Why was she alone?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of himself as ugly and wanted daily to be home with his wife. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If these two busted out the magic swords, things could get ugly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The mood inside Ford’s became dark, ugly, and menacing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy took his seat, but he kept shouting ugly words at me throughout the rest of the class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty necklaces, ugly bracelets, fake diamond rings, and so on. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They are ugly gray insects, with such quick flight that they are hard to kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That she don’t want no geeks hanging round her, especially no ugly ones. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “Too ugly to look at,” she said loudly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z An ugly boy would have been sent to reform school by now. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A small curly-haired thing with an underbite so ugly it was cute. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Her throat and shoulders were scored with similar ugly marks right the way ’round. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z All the ugly pieces blended in just fine, like a few bad memories tucked into an otherwise happy life. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It was an ugly little building without a front door, set in a landscape of distant, gray-brown mountains and flat, white-gray basins. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Laney’s face broke into a huge grin that took up half her face, and even Oliver had to admit that it was worth getting an ugly tree for that smile. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She tried to look as ugly as possible. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His face, twisted into a hostile frown, was curiously ugly: greasy hair, watery eyes, pale, lifeless skin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The boy who raised his head and looked around at the ugly old mountains surrounding him seemed far different than the boy I’d been merely moments before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One had been castrated, an ugly mouth gaping where his manhood had been. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This makes Helmuth squirm inside, the same way he squirms when Hugo laughs over cartoons that depict Jews in an ugly manner. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness—self-preservation of an uglier stripe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The earthen wall of the fortification that faced the river was bare and ugly, and the houses beyond were no more than plain wooden boxes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z And there was no disgust, or fear, or any of the thousand other ugly emotions he was entitled to; only understanding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Why do the white people write ‘Colored’ on all the ugly drinking fountains, the dingy restrooms, and the back of the buses? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The pale yellow bolster pillow is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen, packaged on the ends like a big yellow hotdog. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Jeez, it’s ugly,” he breathed in wonder, as if he had never witnessed such a thing before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But somehow all these houses seem so ugly to me right now, even worse than Las Casitas and our patchy weeds strewn with the twins’ toys in the yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Can’t help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Which meant I had to wear that ugly black smear on my forehead the rest of the day. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She was ugly and had spite enough to poison the whole town. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Loma’s got too many cats and talks ugly, and Mary Willis would worry me to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Well, okay. But I'm not just some former ugly girl who sold her soul to date hotties and go to the finest keg parties the Greater Gutshot Area has to offer.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Doing tricks is great! Okay? Breaking the rules is fun! But eventually you’ve got to do something besides being a clever little ugly.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “An ugly lives for tricks. Haven’t you ever done something just because a mysterious stranger intrigued you?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Perrington’s face shifted for a moment, toward something pained and ugly—but it was so fast she barely noticed it above the pounding rising in her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The resulting scar was uglier than the cyst. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long, for example, until a new arrival in the block pointed to another kind of untouchable: “the ugly trans-sexual.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The underside of a mailbox is really ugly—a bunch of paint-splattered metal joints and bolts. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He was the ugliest pet we ever owned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The question sprang up like a lone weed; ugly, and deeply rooted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “This is geode—ugly on outside, beautiful on inside. If you break it open, you will see that inside it look like diamonds.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was an ugly animal with a pointed snout, tiny eyes, and large pointed ears. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The ugly man reached the princess and carried her down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Now the look he was giving me was really ugly, and I wondered whether he’d heard a New York accent recently and found mine a poor match. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I nodded my thanks to the big ugly kapo and hurried away before he changed his mind and killed me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z A good, ugly, makeup-smearing cry, with tears and snot running down her face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He was an ugly, but he had a nice smile. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She was enormous, fat, and horribly ugly, wearing a chain-mail dress like a muumuu—but next to the giant she looked like a child. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Everyone judged everyone else based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs, and people even voted for some politicians just because they weren’t quite as ugly as everybody else. Blah, blah, blah.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The man snarled, menacing and ugly, and advanced a few steps. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z That, Alice told me about later—how he demanded that everything used on me be clean, how he insisted on the deep ugly wound in my side—the scratch—being carefully cleaned and bandaged. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Estraven’s smile was an ugly split in a peeling, cracked brown mask, thatched with black fur and set with two flecks of black rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s one ugly dude, greasy hair matted to his head, a scruffy beard—the kind that looks like a wild fungus on the neck— and black sunglasses. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I’m frantic. Nobody in our family was baldheaded as I can recall, and it makes me frantic the idea of being an ugly old baldhead.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In her place—almost as if the boys' ugly words and taunts had the power of spells—was a hairy, breast-budding grownup no one would ever love. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Grandma says to Mam, Your brother Pat, bad leg an’ all, was selling papers all over Limerick by the time he was eight and that Frank of yours is big and ugly enough to work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I know what you mean. But that was all ugly stuff. Crazy love and jealousy and needing to rebel against the city. Every kid’s like that. But you grow up, you know?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I told her he was rather an ugly man, but quite a gentleman; and that he treated me kindly, and I was content. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Chloe wasn’t ugly or anything like that—in fact, she had a pretty face; But you had to concentrate to notice it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Shay stayed with them, complaining about the food, the ruins, her hair and clothes, and having to look at all the ugly faces around her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He reached into the basket and pulled out an ugly rock. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I throw back my coffee, watch a horsefly buzz against Aibileen’s screen door, knocking with its hard ugly head, whap, whap, whap, until it falls down on the step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hazel had done plenty of ugly work before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He thought he’d at last come to an oasis—ugly and uncomfortable, but still an oasis—where he could feel welcome. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone wrote something in the yearbook. Something stupid and ugly and racist.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He talked on and on about the models his grandfather had given him, pointing out every little detail of his prized World War II fighter jet and the ugly army-green one, a bomber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The stakes are higher of course, play the wrong song in a tavern and people might hiss you, but misjudge an entire town and things can get uglier than that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can’t all think it’s ugly.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She drank to extremes and sometimes acted ugly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary house, he thought, an ugly house, nothing to boast of. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The colored girl wore a dress made of calico, old-fashioned and ugly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At five I also know I am a pretty child, for I have heard adults say to Ma many times how ugly I am. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I start remembering that night in my horribly ugly pink room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m well fed and ugly, and they are starving. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We enter the apartment, and Rabiya points to the sides of the sofa, which are an ugly shade of beige instead of the navy blue velvet fabric that covers the rest of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She didn’t back off from the ugly cases. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was ugly,” Juanga says, closing his eyes, then taking a small bite of his smelly tuna sandwich. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It had only one storey, but it had the same narrow windows, and it was built of ugly pale bricks, badly laid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I made piles of light, dark, and bright fabrics and one pile I thought was too ugly for keeping. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He had never before been aware of what an ugly word it was. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But poison things and ugly things and cruel things kept crawling through her mind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Each day I visit black Mary, who looks at me with her wise face, older than old and ugly in a beautiful way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are ugly, but we are here,” she says, almost whispering. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Three white men and a woman took the boy from his uncle’s home early Sunday after the boy allegedly made “ugly remarks” to a white woman. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The old, ugly Peris would have enjoyed the challenge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “They have to squeeze in tight,” Horse grinned with his ugly horse teeth, and he took the white stuff he had been picking from them and wiped it on his pants. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The world is beautiful, but people make it ugly.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I remember when you used to say how ugly they were. You used to say you’d never write with a thing in your life but a straight pen. Right?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Pet whipped its head around and snarled, an ugly sound, rotten with contempt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Even so, prejudice sometimes reared its ugly head. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And I would cry more to make my face uglier. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And he stuck his big, ugly tongue out and pretended to convulse. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I’ll end up working in a factory, marry some loser, and have his ugly children. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Move to avoid the cut, and you will still die, but your dying will be uglier. Stretch out your neck, my lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That a woman alone, even if ugly, could not suffer as much as my beautiful mother did. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Both the men and women were taller than pretty standard, and more powerfully built, their eyes as pale as an ugly’s. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She hardly ever got labeled ugly, nor was she commonly labeled hot. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The first time I ever saw it I thought the façade was ugly but I liked it now. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They are ugly indi'gena blouses, used and grayish white, the color of dirty laundry water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They are calling him every ugly Asian name I have ever heard. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer had the kind of ugly face that incited horror or pity, but now I was made unremarkable by my passing good looks. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He stretched out the word until it sounded ugly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They fluttered, like Mr. Black’s fingers looking for a one-word biography, but no sound came out, not even an ugly sound, or breath. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Tears spring to my eyes, and a great big wave of ugly feelings wells up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain’t believed it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs. As a maintenance technician, my deck jersey, float coat, and helmet are an ugly green, the color of overcooked peas.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Tally felt uglier every second she spent there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was shorthand for the cruel phrase for ugly girls with great bods: “Put a flag over her face and you know what for Old Glory.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Believe me, I know it can get ugly out here. There was a point where I didn’t think any of this was worthwhile.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I let my hair go back, plaited it up, and settled down to just being ugly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Mainly they were heavy winter boots for trudging through snow, as ugly as could be. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was an ugly sort of wardrobe to his left, full of the teachers’ cloaks. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But Eleanor didn't have anything else to do, so her eyes wandered over to the ugly comic. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z For some reason, just looking at the ugly red building made him feel angry. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She just leaves the results on the board above the ugly homophobic signs, and all I can think of is what she called us: Unity Valley’s best and brightest. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Within the first few months of her return to her parents’ home, Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They spoke of a harnessed ugly man, praying at a wayside cross—of a worn face asleep in the moonlight on its shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future, whenever she did find people staring at her and her ugly little boy, Mom settled for staring back. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He throws his bag down at the door of his room and kicks his shoes into the hallway, watching them bounce crookedly across the ugly antique rug. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He lived out the winter in that ugly, neon-lit neighborhood, with its air full of the scent of popcorn, simmering hot dogs, and orange drink. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a feeling something real ugly was about to happen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Yes, I had an ugly face and no legs, but my brain worked quite well, thank you very much. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Or perhaps, he thought unhappily, he was only putting off what would certainly be an ugly confrontation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The thing he set in front of me is an ugly gray rock. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At dinner that night, I started telling everyone about Billy Deel’s disgusting dad and the ugly dump they lived in. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It looked ugly now; it looked like what it was, wounded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I realize that what makes the moon so spectacularly beautiful from down here on Earth might look ugly, jagged, and scarred up close. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Not a bad idea, but the sweaters are ugly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The fourth night in ugly exile she took her board up into the greenbelt, staying at the edge of town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Three thousand children crowded into this ugly brutalizing school that had facilities for only one thousand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To realize there was something ugly, and I refused to see it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Below their feet, the ugly, sharp-toothed fish darted back and forth, waiting to take the two of them down to bones. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “It’s rotten. The wood’s all eaten. Look ye, see when I pull? Warps. You see there? Gentlemen, we is taking on some ugly water.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “She wasn’t big or ugly or mean,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Muthu gestured at a vendor who was dozing in the shade of a pushcart piled high with the ugliest plastic dolls I’d ever seen. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Did you want to be a beautiful swan, you ugly little girl? Did you think you could fly?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Their eyes were focused on the ugly faces of Erik and Arthur. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She called David Letterman "the ugly, mean one on after Johnny." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z It was like a big ugly apartment building had fallen out of the sky and landed in the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But Spot doesn’t seem to mind being ugly. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The particular details of Jenkin’s story were ugly—perhaps deliberately so—but its conceptual point was clear. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tally hadn’t realized it at the time, but that had been an important conversation for Shay, the first time she had talked about wanting to stay ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Catherine was dressed in purple tennis shoes, green tights, a purple suede skirt, and the ugliest green sweater I’ve ever seen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Under normal circumstances, Asta would have flown down at once to talk to the dæmon, from politeness, even though she was frightening and ugly, but these circumstances weren’t normal. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It had been covered with an ugly black scab. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Feet away, towering above him, was a solid wall of spiders, clicking, their many eyes gleaming in their ugly black heads. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z His loose lips were lifted in an ugly snarl, baring his white fangs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Besides, sometimes things that look pretty, like secret fire in the darkness, are really pretty ugly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The statue outside the shrine of the Weeping Lady of Lys was crying silver tears as the ugly girl walked by. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But it’s with this ideal that the spiders spin their ugliest webs for us. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Isn’t she ugly?” her friends would say to her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ugly face, pale, coarse, and cruel, but Ged feared no man, though he might fear where such a man would guide him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z East Harlem was ugly real estate that no one wanted. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The chupacabras’s mordida had left three ugly lacerations two inches above her ankle, on the outside of her leg, so both her ankle and calf were swollen to twice their normal size. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And for an instant, when the ugly, scarred boy lay at the bottom of the hill, Tendai had been right down there with him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z All her ugly senior’s confidence had evaporated the moment she’d seen him back at the hospital. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Everything seemed to go dizzy and ugly and horrible. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There are other streets in Paris as ugly as the Boulevard Raspail. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She was a very ugly old woman, Bran thought spite-fully; shrunken and wrinkled, almost blind, too weak to climb stairs, with only a few wisps of white hair left to cover a mottled pink scalp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But Violet was nothing but persistent and no wisecrack or ugly look stopped her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was there, as huge and shaggy and ugly as always, but the castle had vanished. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I really don’t look ugly with short hair?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Today the brother, Etienne, had a great big ugly lump on his forehead over his left eye—quite fresh, a purple bruise with a bloody dent in the center, still swollen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z So I’m left with the last suit: green with gold flowers, swimmable and not ugly. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly, she would have to stay with these people. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I see ugly green puffs happening all on top of each other. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z And it really has hurt to hear the ugly rumor going around. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I create the whole universe, blink by blink.—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When he turned up, he was just as ugly as the last time Griff laid eyes on him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This girl did not need an enchanted mirror to show her that the world could be an ugly place, so to her it spoke the truth. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z His face looked enormous because of its nearness, and hideously ugly because it was seen from below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A gruff voice answered through the door, growling something unintelligible in the mongrel tongue of Slaver’s Bay, an ugly blend of Old Ghiscari and High Valyrian. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Police kept tight control on the people, on the ugly chaos. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But now, in my memory, it did not seem ugly at all It seemed only kind and strong. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari liked the fact that she didn’t look at her as if she were ugly or an animal or a piece of flesh to be used. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s pretty ugly, isn’t she?” he said with a big, incongruous beam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Four old sweaters, ugly and full of holes, and five pairs of knitting needles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His dad wasn’t wrong about how ugly things would get with Richards leading the ticket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was the middle of December, a week before winter break, when it all got really ugly. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Between his ugly mind and rancid hygiene, she hadn't made contact with him since that second night, but only passed him by with wincing revulsion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You are one ugly girl, I told myself, but at that very moment, Nora, the oldest and best dancer in the class, crossed the room toward me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shavepate’s ugly, oily face was as stem as ever, but he missed nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the skin on her arm erupts into an ugly rash. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It made a horrible loud noise and spewed ugly black smoke over the beautiful lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She had learned early how to swamp ugly imaginings with pleasant ones. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally he looks at the big, ugly wound on Shiloh’s hurt leg, torn open right to the bone, the bites around Shiloh’s neck, and the ripped ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Hyenas—stinking, ugly little beasts, not so impressive until you had seen them, working as a pack, pull a man down and rend him into fragments...and then eat the fragments. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z His preoccupation lasted all the way across the sodden vegetable patch until they arrived in greenhouse three, but here he was distracted by Professor Sprout showing the class the ugliest plants Harry had ever seen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Dad said the word reverentially, like ugly was the most marvelous thing in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was not a feeling she’d ever gotten from an ugly before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Two ugly boys who must have been his sons went before him, struggling with the weight of a heavy metal shield as tall as they were. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “A few more beatings and you’ll be uglier than I am, Mormont. Tell me, is there any fight left in you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stood up and opened the door and Winn-Dixie flew through it like something big and ugly and mean was chasing him. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z THE first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Afi,” she whispered, “the land is lovely. I thought it must surely be an ugly place.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later it had turned into a joke between them, typical ugly stuff. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She jumped from the bed, slamming into the wall so hard that her shoulder made an ugly cracking noise. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, good. There’s something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You’ve never even accepted that the man is ugly,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to whisper. No one comes here at night It’s ugly territory, and they’re all in bed, unless they’re tricking.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She reminds me of a big, white, ugly schoolteacher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The laugh that booms out of the sheriff is genuine, and an ugly feeling rises up in me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to look up at the ugly web of cracks across the ceiling. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But even though her car was old, it wasn’t old and ugly like Crab’s car, at least. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z This desire, this murderous need that sent my fingers curling inward, my nails cutting into my palms—it was everything ugly inside of Yakov, left to grow inside me like a thornbush. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Beneath him, Loki saw a huge grave mound, and sitting on it, plaiting a dog collar, was the hugest, ugliest ogre of a giant he had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “I’ve never seen anything that ugly in my life,” said Tyler. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Sure, the dictionary says we can use lame adverbs like uglily, friendlily, surlily, and jollily, but nobody says we have to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The beast that had prevented Roza from escaping the yard of that horrible suburban house was the largest, ugliest, most miserable dog that Roza had ever seen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I notice the moonlight on the chain-link fence, the way it turns even the ugliest pattern into a delicate, luminous web. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z These details did not help him, for the principle of their unity was undiscoverable, and he could not tell what he most passionately desired to know: whether his face was ugly or not. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Beneath those parts of my childhood, though, the ugly little pieces of my story were falling into place. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The clock on the wall—a hideously ugly and practical thing, in Kaori’s opinion—said it was two nineteen. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z And I had to suppress that old urge to defend myself, my field, the ugly collective history, you know. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes she wrote some posts expecting ugly responses, her stomach tight with dread and excitement, but they would draw only tepid comments. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Eventually someone very ugly or very unhappy would spot a new kid walking around and in tentative, irresolute gestures would offer friendship to you with no ulterior motives except to end their own intolerable loneliness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Then his monstrous ugly face broke into a wide grin. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The doors of the Great Hall loomed up in front of him; new-made, to replace the doors that burned, they seemed erode and ugly to him, raw planks hastily joined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He crept on his toes towards the ugly brutes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My arm stings, my shoulder aches, the bone bruise on my thigh is now an ugly purple-black, and I’m hungry. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I am now more conscious of my disastrous hair and ugly blue-flower dress. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Trace looked at him but I knew she was talking to me when she said, ‘Your little ugly friend hurt him and you remind him of her.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at it in horror and disbelief, hoping that my eyes are deceiving me and this ugly red symbol is something other than what I know it is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I kin set and talk a spell if it will help you to fergit any ugly things that has come up in yore dreams.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cement tactics? That ugly fountain is cement tactics. Bad cement tactics. What the heck is cement tactics?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Without the coal cars, Coalwood was no longer covered by a daily pall of dust, but I still saw a gray, ugly crust on everything and everybody that would never come off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The turkeys were very small and fluffed and ugly, all packed together in wire trays, one layer above the other. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The stick was in my side again, poking for my attention, but still I looked up, ignoring the ugly shouts. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It’s like I’m getting a primer coat of ugly for the day. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon stopped, his fist still raised, his face an ugly puce. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My ugly immigrant’s truth, as was his, is that I have exploited my own, and those others who can be exploited. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Goyle bellowed and put his hands to his nose, where great ugly boils were springing up — Hermione, whimpering in panic, was clutching her mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I thought the building was ugly, but her eyes shone brightly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want the good, the bad, or the ugly?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I thought I could get past them without being noticed, but then I heard, “That’s sure an ugly dog.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was an ugly word, an awful thought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I told her I was seeing the ugly green. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Even during class times, when her mother was not around, they now ignored her, their sharp, clear eyes roaming the classroom for another victim, someone too fat, too ugly, too poor, too different. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She thinks, “They are ugly. They are weeds.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "You would call me ugly, youi" He started to raise the bloody sword still clutched in his mailed fist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Somehow, although it's made from the same stuff, it looks a lot more appetizing than the ugly drop biscuits that are the standard fare at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One big meriny colored woman was so ugly till it was worth five dollars for her not to come in, so he gave it to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It was better to end it now before things got too ugly. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Looking into that huge mass of faces was like looking into the ugliest depths of the human soul. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z If by nice, she means ugly and dull, then sure. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I feel like a wet sock; I feel ugly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t surprise me because Lorena loves attention from men, no matter how old or ugly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Bedbugs and kwalikwata crawled; women would untie their wrappers to reveal an ugly rash of reddened bites around their waists, like hives steeped in blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I did what You did not, could not, would not do: I looked at that ugly little black girl, and I loved her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "This fight doesn't change that. You can't start kicking people every time someone thinks I'm weird or ugly. . . . Promise me you won't try. Promise me that you'll try not to care." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It was ugly but serviceable, and I leaned it up against the side of the greystone arch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I turned to where black smoke spilled out over the road, coating the hill’s grass and hidden edges in a thick, ugly blanket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange that anyone would be interested in this ugly thing except for maybe wanting to burn it and dance on the ashes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z And by that he meant so ugly that if I wanted a dog to play with me, I’d have to tie a pork chop around my neck. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about dying that was so common outside the hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z While she read the questions, the boys fidgeted and the girls whispered and giggled in their dresses, while I kept quiet in my ugly jeans. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The scene is a denouement, ugly and raw. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It looked ugly and pathetic and scared him to death—no way that’d keep the Grievers out. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z An ugly rock stood defiantly against the sea with five jagged spires projecting from it, as though a hand were clawing its way out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He had an ugly brown tooth hanging from a string around his neck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Bribe is such an ugly word, Eddie. I’m simply offering you a college scholarship to show my appreciation. It’s the least I can do after firing your mother.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Just step out of the way. Even if it’s ugly at school, this isn’t your fight. Why are you jumping into the middle of it?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The hullbeast’s ugly face peeked over the ledge, growling and smelling like a kindergarten bathroom. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Thalia and I pulled helplessly at the bricks while a ripple of ugly laughter ran through the Titans army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The ugly jealous feeling lifts its head and roars, and I beat it back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Somehow, she couldn’t recall his ugly face anymore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I was to grow up an ugly child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be vandalism, plain and ugly, defacement of school property. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As if “old and ugly” did not describe her father as well. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He might be drinking a bowl of hot broth and complaining to the old man about the ugly girl who had tried to rob his purse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It’s basically the bouncer at the door telling you, “We can’t let you in because of your friend Darren and his ugly shoes.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “She be lucky if it don’t live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard doors open, I saw hands intrusive and ugly in their threats. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I picture my brother hunched over the receiver, trying to concentrate, to push out the words that have jammed in his throat, while his father hurls an arsenal of ugly words. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Isn’t she... ugly?” someone asked from the edge of the crowd. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The thing is, even though the building was ugly, we actually had good equipment to train on and great coaches. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I reach across her and unsnap her seat belt, then pull her out so we’re standing face to face in this flat, ugly parking lot next to a dark library, a Chick-fil-A right next door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, child. Angels aren’t pretty pictures in old holy books, just like monsters aren’t ugly pictures. It’s all just people, doing hard things or doing bad things. But is all just people, our people.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “He’s actually kind of ugly,” my mother said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The dead gray face was ugly in death as it had never been in life. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z My mom liked that about him; she used to say there’s a type of ugly that women find attractive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That, of course, left Ares’s cabin: a dozen of the biggest, ugliest, meanest kids on Long Island, or anywhere else on the planet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I look at the face of the ugliest man in the world and feel sorry for the man,” Mary Anne said, “because I know what it’s like to feel ugly.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it feels like a practicality: It’s hard to buy new clothes, so I wear all the ones that fit me, even the ugly ones, even the ones that remind me of better times. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “My daughter and I worked on it for months. But when we finished, my daughter said, ‘Father, the horse is so beautiful, but the man is so ugly! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A horseshoe puckered on Sybil’s neck, ugly and purple—her first owner had raised draft horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was hard to imagine that it could ever look anything but ugly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z This is a terrible and ugly thing to do. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They took Emmett out to their car where a white woman identified him as the one who had made “ugly remarks” to her, and then put him in the car and drove off. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Even the ugliest pan of grease was special. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “She has an ugly voice. She quacks like a pressed duck.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were still the same—I guess those couldn’t get any uglier— but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bat’s wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Fat thighs, ugly hair, ugly clothing, funny eyes, all shouted in a chorus. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis’s apartment was in an ugly 1970s building owned by the college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the kitchen doorway, back arched, ears flattened, stands the ugliest tomcat in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Many were infected; ugly sores dotted the lining, and the stomachs had lacerations and bleeding patches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “This is amazing. It’s so ugly, I kind of want to buy it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He and his big ugly friends were too busy laughing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "He's a big, grotesquely ugly giant with the strength of a thousand elephants and a gigantic appetite, for human flesh especially. The usual." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And he stood in the door and paid all the ugly women two dollars not to come in. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They don’t show ugly dark hairs under ladies’ arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on one of the little spindle-legged tables that supported so many frail-looking silver instruments, was an ugly gold ring set with a large, cracked, black stone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I definitely fit the description of the ugly duckling in makeover movies, except that those girls were actually gorgeous actresses disguised by poorly framed glasses. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Searching for the sight of one of those ugly, knobby squash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Really? Because I think it’s kind of ugly. My mom picked it.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z A bunch of ugly cheering rose from the Ares table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z To him, too, it seemed as if the ugly, heavy cauldron had gained some strange life of its own. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She turned away from her mother to wipe her eyes, smudging her ugly mascara tears. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Listen to the ugly one, Sombo. This spotted child, the ugliest girl I have ever seen, thinks that she can tell me what to do.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Most salamanders are tiny, only an inch or two long, but the rare and startlingly ugly hellbender salamander can attain lengths of over two feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He had been no more than an ugly boy at easterly Rock when the city fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s getting ugly out there, folks,” the weatherman continued. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Hurry up!” he shouted more loudly, and there w'as an ugly rasp in his voice. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What if I had ended up with a creature that looked silly or ugly, a tapir or an ostrich or a flock of turkeys? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "How nice! I saved you, and now you call me ugly?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We laughed at the ugly dishes I’d bought in a secondhand booth to replace the china. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A plump yellow mango with just a few ugly bruises. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I hate it when a suit is a really ugly color so you look completely dumb. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t very complicated, Tally. You have had a change of heart. You have decided to run away, following your friend Shay. Just another ugly escaping the tyranny of beauty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And what ugly thing was it he said to her the last time she tried to kill him? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Prison is such an ugly word, don’t you think?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And I could see old marks, ugly scars of at least one much worse beating. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The Grand High Witch was clearly in an ugly mood and they knew it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell if the man had drowned or if the ugly gash on his forehead had done him in, but he was dead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I do not go out much, my mind wanders to ugly events. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Never Grandpa. He thought the English words for grandparents sounded ugly. But you know, sometimes when I was trying to be funny, I’d call him Gramps. Just to see the look on his face.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I could see this was only going to get uglier unless I did something drastic. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The sand exploded at his feet and out charged a wild boar, even larger and uglier than the one whose head hung above the door of. cabin seven at Camp Half-Blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “So what do we have here?” says the guy, his eyes burning at me, and laughing in a most ugly way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “What if our mother was a big ugly mean person?” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought, A drink could blot out all the ugly and painful things around me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He did not know how much he would tell about the ugly words of Guy Wortman and the others who were ready to believe that Matt Creighton was a Copperhead, because of Bill’s actions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked as I’d never seen her before, ugly somehow, her brows arched. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sister’s name— Magdalena—which is uglier than mine. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly the wound was now very ugly, and very red, and must, John felt, with a quickened sympathy towards Roy, who had not cried out, have been very painful. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures,” replied Estella, with a glance towards him, “hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was unassuming to the point of being ugly, with a pink, unkempt exterior and a mass-manufactured mailbox with an eagle on top of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I thought I was ugly 11 had no boyfriend, I didn’t go to parties, and I had no social life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Some were grotesquely fat, or weirdly overmuscled, or uncomfortably thin, and almost all of them had wrong, ugly proportions. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Yeah, no point in being uglier than usual.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Olanna said she didn’t want a house. Not that she needs one. Save the houses for the ugly daughter.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Honey, I know women who are artists with makeup and still are ugly as homemade sin.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably because they knew cute kids grow up into ugly, problematic teenagers. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She could stand anything, she thought—a gross guardian, a freaky kid, an ugly, dirty house—as long as she was in charge. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The village people might denounce his manner of life, but one thing he had which balanced his ugly life even in their eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Someone had scratched a line across the side of his beloved Buick, a thin ugly gulch that ran across the door and toward the tail of the car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Want us to think about his ugly, twisted death as if it were our own. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He said nothing in 1943 when talk at the bar turned ugly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Bring out your compact. Conjure us some big sunglasses. And ugly hats. Things celebrities would wear.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She had horn-rimmed glasses and was convinced they made her ugly, even though she had a long neck and the straightest, smoothest hair I’d ever seen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It means ‘Hurry up and rescue me before I get my butt kicked by Dusty’s big ugly goon,’ ” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Well, yes, but for a while, your father and I were worried you were never going to grow out of your ugly phase.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It leaves an ugly dash across my drawing, right through the middle of a lopsided mountain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was ugly, fat, and he laughed like a hog with the colic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “She’s the one piece of beauty among all this ugly” Suzanne sits next to her daughter and catches me in the mirror. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He got an ugly feeling in the pit of his stomach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The others watch, grunting their disapproval: too small, too flimsy, an ugly thing to see. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “I can’t make you no uglier, but I can cut your tongue out and I can gut you like a fish. You want me to do that, Ho?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The only color was the white of our sheets, and most of those had aged to an ugly yellow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Thomas groaned inwardly as he stepped inside and saw the one piece of furniture—an ugly, rickety chair with one leg obviously shorter than the rest, probably on purpose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z ‘Now,’ thought Pippin, ‘if only it takes that ugly fellow a little while to get his troop under control, I’ve got a chance.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The picture show, you know. Where this mulatto girl hates her mother cause she is black and ugly but then cries at the funeral. It was real sad. Everybody cries in it. Claudette Colbert too.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The big girl from the ugly red cabin was sauntering toward us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Under her breath, since people say her voice is so ugly all the time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I never said a word back to the group hovering with their ugly catcalls. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the scar was now ugly red, as though it had recently been reopened. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The queen remembered the Maid of Tarth, a huge, ugly, shambling thing who dressed in man’s mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On the port-side wall, the huge ugly face receded so that Leo could see the entire creature—another gnome chimp, in even crazier clothes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At once I felt a connection to it, for it, also, was ugly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z You could stay a very long time at Faye’s before you would hear an ugly or suggestive word spoken. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Telling police I’m obsessed with her and her ugly brat? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some ugly patches mixed in here and there but, overall, it was shaping up to look like a mismatched jumble of better than perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was always the smallest boy in his class, and who had no friends, became immediately beautiful, tall, and popular. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Like any village witch she could brew up a love-potion, but there were other, uglier brews she made to serve men's jealousy and hate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “All right...This man, his dæmon’s got a leg missing. She’s a hyena or something. Horrible ugly. But he’s nice, or he seems nice enough.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The second, Burton Prater, held out his hand, where an ugly penny sat in his palm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But the way he said it was ugly. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “You must think I’m nuts. And even if those pills work, look what they’re supposed to do. From what I can tell, ‘cured’ means being a jealous, self-important, whiny little ugly- brain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s done, Hiram, and believe you me, nobody around here is going to bring up this ugly mess again. It’s over. Period.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Robin ran his fingers around the ugly cavity, imagining how it would feel to be struck with a mace. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Behind the ugly glasses she’s pretty, almost like a china doll. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “If not for hope, what keeps you going?” asked Reynie, who had an ugly suspicion that there might come a time, and not so far away, when things would seem hopeless to him, too. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was not a night watchman, only an ugly warthog allowed to sleep in a human bed as a joke. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He simply stood by, like his twenty-four- year-old deputy, thinking the thoughts a man thinks at such a time about the ugly inevitability of death. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z With the ugly iron head of the quarrel staring her in the face, it was hard to think what else to say. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And the pearl was ugly; it was gray, like a malignant growth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, yes. Even a stunted, twisted, ugly little boy can look down over the world when he's seated on a dragon's back." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “It just always makes me think about Wood. He was born on a rainy day, and even though it was ugly out, it was the happiest day of my life.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “But my family doesn’t even like me. And I don’t want to wear a big, ugly dress....And the dancing. Oh my God, the dancing.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “When I get to college, it won’t matter if I’m not charming. And it doesn’t matter if a person is ugly; she can still do schoolwork.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He shouldn’t feel responsible for the ugly, stupid thing Paul was going to say. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z What use was there in being slightly less ugly and dead? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I have always known that moment of disappearance, and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The ugliest thing about these stories was that they were all sordidly true. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No, we need the ugly, bumpy one with the squished nose you had at the end of it all. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “An ugly brute, but scars alone don’t make a Second Son.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lady, if only you knew how much I wished I was this ugly because I was allowed to play sports! Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The ugly creature was on its back with its arms and legs flailing, but unable to move because of the weight of the stone on his chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Unless you make your living as a supermodel, you know what it's like to have at least one physical imperfection that makes you feel irreversibly ugly. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Man!” one of the truckers said, waving his hand in front of his ugly nose. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As he pulls off of Pacific Coast Highway, the plant wavers before him like an ugly industrial mirage, asphalt heat making it shimmer before him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The next they called each other names, spewed out ugly lists of offenses on both sides, with the recurrent theme of Mami’s uncertain status as a common-law wife. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Sansa found it hard not to stare; his face was so ugly it held a queer fascination for her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, but that was the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Of course, not every ugly believed such an outrageous tale, but a few did. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Her face was cold and hard—ugly; she had never been so ugly before. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Lancelot said: “Jenny, couldn’t you forgive her? She is probably ugly as well as miserable now. She never had much to fan back on.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was a fact, as cold and ugly as they come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The walls are bright orange, which sounds ugly but looks totally cool, like we’re on the surface of the sun or something. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Said Mr. Turner, “I have, at long last, recognized you. Some years ago you played a devilish ugly Tartini article for a subscription concert.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Behind him rode three queerly garbed strangers atop ugly humped creatures that dwarfed any horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was dirty and starving and bitten and hurt and lonely and ugly and afraid and so completely miserable that it was like being in a pit, a dark, deep pit with no way out. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do I have to be so ugly, Mommy?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I already knew I'd had a hand in turning him into a sensitive kid, but I never expected him to go into an ugly cry when we said good-bye outside the dorms. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Except we’re on the ugly flower sofa and it’s only one person slamming and I’m not wearing hockey gear, only a thin sweatshirt, and he’s reaching under it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “That’s just about the ugliest c-c-cat I ever did see, white boy,” he said to Ben, pointing a stubby finger at Okra. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe learned everything true and untrue, founded and unfounded, every ugly conjecture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This is when my mother would say, “Such an ugly face. The Huangs won’t want you and our whole family will be disgraced.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He is more attractive than I thought, but also uglier. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He video calls me from inside the Department of Supernatural Health sporting an ugly bruise on his forehead. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z You’d think something named a skunk cabbage would be ugly and stinky, and Daddy said they sort of were, but they were interesting, too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, Shay* s ugly face looked perfect “It’s so great to see you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it," he declared. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Although it was a cruel and ugly routine, it had a purpose and a progression. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The mood of the crew was ugly, and like to turn uglier when their daily rum ration went dry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t know he was coming to pick me up after school, so I still have on that ugly weave from Unique Hair Essentials. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But why wasn’t he coming toward me, shouting ugly words at me like the others? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her chest feel lighter, the thought of avoiding that whole ugly conversation, but doubt whispered through her like smoke seeping under a closed door. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In the way that the human mind can do, somehow I slid over admitting to myself the ugly fact, even as I began dealing with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their black profiles stood out in silhouette against the setting light Lancelot’s, the old ugly man’s, was the outline of a gargoyle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long for folks to learn about the ugly word carved into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Besides being the biggest, it must have been the ugliest fish that I’d ever seen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though my friends still like me, I can’t help worrying that someone from my past will appear and spill out all the ugly details of my life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whenever I think the world is ugly—that life has no meaning at all—I remind myself that this is here, always waiting for me,” Russ says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ugly, dangerous place, and it made him feel bad to think of the dog all alone out here. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They looked down at the ugly lump of iron with a certain awe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I suppose I am ugly because nobody has ever said I am handsome. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The neat stitches ringing it transformed what would have been an otherwise ugly lump into a shiny little sunshine of a scar. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was an ugly smile, a smile that reminded him of Ramsay’s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ugly feelings of the other day showed nowhere on their excited faces. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back, and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In twenty-something years, she would be lined and wrinkled, as ugly as the Boss, an outcast. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Silence was ugly, it was black, it leered, it was cancerous, it was death. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I sassed him a little when he called me ugly, but that don’t give him no call to . . . hurt me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then Templeton bared his long ugly teeth and began snipping the threads that fastened the sac to the ceiling. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He walked down the curious ranks, ugly as ever, self-conscious, ashamed, a veteran going to be broken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was weeping—big ugly tears down a blotchy face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And the lump, why, the lump threw an arm across its beautiful, ugly, pinched-up face and all my fear over Fang dying, about him being dead, turned to disgust instead of relief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I stare at the muddy, ugly pennies and wonder. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Twelve was definitely the turning point, when you changed from a cute littlie into an oversize, undereducated ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He loses his balance and crashes into an ugly urn filled with fake flowers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He set down his bottle in the sand and held up the ugly brown thing so he could see it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The snake lifted its ugly triangular head and hissed slightly as the legs of the chair snagged on its rug. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Before I could stop them, a shower of fat, ugly tears started rolling down my face. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Cement tactics? That ugly fountain is cement tactics. Bad cement tactics. What the heck is cement tactics?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “And she took her husband, and her boys, and her ugly SS man with her! And her ugly SS man isn’t coming back!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It had been a very ugly situation, a bad divorce. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fudge looked around at the portrait of the ugly little man wearing the long curly silver wig, who was digging in his ear with the point of a quill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I suppose if they didn’t, they’d smother the ugly ones, and the human race would have died out or been much more attractive as a result. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Her hair waves at me and her mouth is beautiful, though her teeth are ugly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z All the way down the hall to her room, Mrs. Mole kept turning round and making leering faces at us, and ugly, oinking noises. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The tip of it juts out and up like an ugly thumb and the serrashuns along one side spring up like gnashing teeth and the blade edge pulses like a vein full of blood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was wearing nothing but a plastic diaper and there were long ugly scratches on its arms and legs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Life can be ugly, Taylor. That’s why it’s so important to keep things pretty. And we are going to keep things pretty, aren’t we?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Mother clicks her tongue: Tears of an ugly fish. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Worse, there was a whole line of the ugly new houses all along Pool Side, where the Hobbiton Road ran close to the bank. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was true, I had never seen an uglier man. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I ever kill another cormorant for its beautiful feathers, though they have long, thin necks and make ugly sounds when they talk to each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Cat of the Canals had known these alleys, and the ugly girl remembered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Kind of like a professional pretty. I guess when everyone else is ugly, being pretty is sort of, like, your job.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Through the grimy window it was all ugly big sideboards you get in grandparents' bungalows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But how was an ugly, scarred girl to convince the Sun God she was worthy of such attention? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z When the doctors took my bandages off, they discovered I’d been replaced by a small, ugly alien. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The stars had come out over the silent courtyard, revealing the rubbish-strewn pavement and peeling walls in all their ugly reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “You got to get them pants off her ugly butt anyways, so put ’em over her head,” Darrel say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “They say a mother loves best an ugly child,” he said, and he shook his head sharply. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His face wore a very ugly look indeed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Not horrible in an ugly way, but horrible in a sad, lonely way. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Finn thought, I don’t know what that is, but it’s not ugly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was holding a comic called Watchmen, and it looked so ugly that Eleanor decided not to bother eavesdropping. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I hadn't seen the officer since that initial ugly encounter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And they thought all of that would be so much easier for me if I weren’t so ugly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I held it low in front of my chest and took a picture of my ugly reflection in the mirror. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not his father, old and ugly, brutal and disgusting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "You talking about that ugly slug-looking thing? What he call it...a space bear?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that he was ugly—in fact, his tanned face was rather pleasant, but there was something nasty about his demeanor, about his obsidian eyes as they shifted and met her own. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z If you think you are ugly, you will be ugly, mark my words. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. They’re sports stars, actors, artists. The men with stringy hair are musicians, I think. The really ugly ones are politicians, and someone told me the fatties are mostly comedians.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z All I can think of is that ugly snap Edna sent me last week when Michael came home with Roli and me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was a simple adjustment, a quick patch over an ugly memory.... The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The house was ugly, full of cheap furniture and cheaper paintings of horses and saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because their dark winter clothes were ugly to them on an afternoon like this one. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Probably Mrs. Willard's simultaneous interpreter would be short and ugly and I would come to look down on him in the end the way I looked down on Buddy Willard. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The one ugly one, Laverne, kept kidding me because I was only drinking Cokes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Snouts! Like pigs! It’s this other reality, where she looks like a supermodel but she’s the ugly one. Get it?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She was the one who was ugly, dirty, poor, and drunk. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it will make you ugly,” he told him, “and I think that would be very hard for you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was secondhand, ugly, and had cost me dearly in money, blood, and peace of mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kreacher raised his ugly head and looked at Harry with his great, bloodshot eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The sight was ugly enough to frighten the devil himself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z DeVante leans against a broom near the cash register, wearing one of those ugly green aprons Daddy tries to make me and Seven wear when we work in the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I rip the armband off, revealing the ugly scar from the tracker. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The mother sewed a new ticking over it to hide the ugly stain that had been the past part of Andy’s life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you have to grow a beard if it turns out ugly? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He began calling her ugly names, but she didn’t answer. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been the calf, ugly and slithering and wet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A woman wearing a plain foreign dress and large, ugly shoes walked toward us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s true. You don’t know how to relate to an ugly daughter. Ugliness disgusts you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If there’s ugly things going on out there, well, you put a good stout lock on your door and check it twice before you go to sleep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With a lipstick she drew a wide ugly mouth with frightening teeth in the vicinity of the nipple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Young Till allegedly made the ugly remarks to Mrs. Bryant, wife of the storekeeper who faces a kidnapping charge. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Africa’s full of ugly black people and mosquitoes.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the turtle, I drew Tobias as a big ugly pig in clothing that’s too tight, with a mean expression on his piggy face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She clutched the pendant squeezing the unyielding metal until her muscles ached, as if forcing into her own mind the almost unthinkable fact that she might really remain an ugly for life. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I’ll die out here. My spirit will be trapped forever with those ugly animals watching me. I wish I’d never left home!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard Master’s raised voice, excited and childlike, followed by a long silence and he imagined their hug, and her ugly body pressed to Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Observing the look of dumb horror on his face as the waiter delivered the ugly pizza, I decided that, in a test of basic intelligence, I was a definite shoo-in. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Chett's grin was as ugly as the boils that covered most of his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An ugly tension curled the edges of the atmosphere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It meant that he had seen or heard of something so ugly or frightening that he was paralyzed as a result. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only a girl, a very ugly girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The wrist was swollen and a bit discolored, but what horrified me was a tiny, evil burn on the underside of the forearm: a cigarette burn, gouged deep and ugly in the flesh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter, at that moment, that he was black and ugly. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One glance at the Shavepate’s ugly face sufficed to tell her that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The only color to her ashen face was the dark trickle of blood from an ugly cut on her forehead. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As he said, his two unmarried daughters were so ugly that they needed big dowries. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried all kinds of compliments, and they never said, “Oh, no, you’re too kind. I can’t play it at all. I’m stupid. I’m ugly.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Pretty quickly I became an expert at falling down, shoving my hands in front of me so I didn’t smash my already ugly face into the ground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z As they drew closer, Tally saw that she was an old ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We had one of its ugly plastic orange seats between us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The words were ugly and I had no defense. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A grandmother of a petty knight, an ugly woman with a crooked nose, seemed stately and beautiful in the torches’ strange light. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “That is the ugliest garden I have ever seen,” I said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Having a criminal past is the only way into the really good parties. I mean, no one wants to hear about what classes you took in ugly school.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An ugly yellow scrap from a ripped bodice was still tied to the handle of the front door, which was open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents would have wrung their hands and tried to make it up to me, as parents will with a handicapped or especially ugly child. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The little man must be prodigiously strong, thought Johnny, and he liked his ugly, lined face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The essence was elsewhere, in the older, uglier, more comfortable halls enclosing the Center Com- mon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The wretched Tereus too was changed into a bird, an ugly bird with a huge beak, said sometimes to be a hawk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the ocean had an ugly side . . . this guy was it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The blue tick hound was like the Pritchards, mean and ugly. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Smokies all had lunch together, just like at an ugly dorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Lyra nearly blazed with hatred, and Pantalaimon in her arms became a polecat, the most ugly and vicious of all his forms, and snarled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Whoever had removed it had done an ugly job of it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You little sisters are idiot morons,” Buck Trant, the big, ugly fullback, announced from the back bench of the morning school bus. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I know where it is! Turn right here, and then left at the ugly cow. Then look for a Jack in the Box. It’s in the back, behind the parking lot.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I stopped one with my shoulder, a little ugly, but anything and everything works, as long as it’s a stop. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I will not spend long in Hillsdale, she thought, looking up and down the street, which managed, even in the sunlight, to be dark and ugly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This was constructed on the snout principle, since it was found that if one had an ugly helmet it frightened the enemy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was poorly attended, but it made some of the English papers, and the reports of what had been said were ugly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We scoured the entire lower level of the house, from the dining room to a narrow, dirty kitchen to a living room with the ugliest orange shag carpet I’d ever seen in my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The forest looked sickly, the grass in the meadow was pale yellow, and the fire marks on Half-Blood Hill stood out like ugly scars. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He had no right to criticize Master, and rather than sitting there in his ugly tunic he might turn around and go search properly for Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Hold it up so we don’t have to look at your ugly face.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He chuckled again as he held out a cloak for her and a pair of ugly black tie shoes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the stamp sat an ugly, bald bird. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I began to worry that things were going to get ugly, but I couldn't sort out what to do. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Shoot, the biggest and ugliest dude in there was probably begging for Ali's autograph. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “My son,” he thought “It is a part of me, yet it is fair. It does not seem to be ugly. How can you tell with babies?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ugly and had teeth behind it as the train chugged on and on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Fat staples run around my stump like a big ugly zipper, and the skin is stained dirty yellow. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Diego’s deadpan delivery was so good that I didn’t know whether he was telling the truth, and I busted up laughing at the image of grumpy cats in ugly sweaters. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They looked at my ugly face and pointed their fingers back in the direction from which I had come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z As you can see, Third Wife is quite ugly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay face up on his thin mattress and listened to the ugly sounds of snoring around him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The smoking makes you ugly,” I say, and I walk out, leaving her stranded among the haze. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Barry sat on the steps next to what had to be the ugliest fountain in all of San Francisco. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Ah, boy, you’re in an ugly fight, you are. A bit of a contested leadership right now in the shipping clan.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her face was twisted in an ugly expression, and Ophie clambered to her feet just as the bedroom door slammed open. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Sitting at Prim's knees, guarding her, is the world's ugliest cat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It clouds his face and gives him an ugly look. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He had been lulled, lured and trapped, and there was nothing he could do but sit there like an idiot and watch the ugly black puffs smashing up to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z That one? she said, pointing to a row of ugly three-flats, the ones even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You’re damaged and ugly, but not dead. I suppose that means I’ll need the help of a god to kill you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Anyway, the pig man was fat and ugly, and I didn’t look anything like him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, too loudly, “This airport seems ugly,” and their mother shushed him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s because they’re stingy and have funny shaped heads and ugly looking Jew noses,” Ben said, leaning across to poke Sammy in the ribs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The emotional atmosphere in the cramped quarters became tense, ugly, petty, bickering. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Today was the first time she’d felt like an ugly since coming to the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The night also had a slight breeze, and when she pictured herself swinging in the breeze, clinging to a rope made of ugly clothing, she almost gave up entirely. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I would have turned away as I always did to save her from having to kiss such an ugly daughter, but I was sad that she hadn’t even tried. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z If he thought you were ugly, he wouldn’t have asked for your number, Moss told himself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z An ugly ruby ring, hoping it would cover the rest of the tuition. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My forehead was still tender to the touch, and the stitches were as ugly as sin, but I was feeling better. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Thick, ugly vines ran up the back walls. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z —I have nothin’ broken—just some slight burns, a few cuts, and a couple of ugly bruises. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in the book Dickey has his characters stop for directions in some “sleepy and hookwormy and ugly” town, which for all I know could have been Hiawassee. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In fact, before the Geek Club, Jesse had some ugly bouts with gangs and drugs, and several run-ins with local cops. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been hard for the other angels to hear it, to see one of their own confess to being something else, something other, something ugly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He knew Todder, a short ugly boy with an unpleasant voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scar me in a more attractive way. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was on the bedside table, under the ugly lamp. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It is worth pointing out, furthermore, that his lordship had by that time severed all links with the 'blackshirts', having witnessed the true, ugly nature of that organization. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It gave her a quick ugly throb, but she didn’t ask him about it since he didn’t say. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He said words in German that were foreign but ugly and spit on the ground at my feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help myself; in that moment, I granted Traft forgiveness for the ugly actions his bitterness had led him to. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If a part calls for a handsome boy or a beautiful girl, Volpe doesn’t put someone ugly in the role. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I run to my compartment, thinking to use the parachute, but it’s so full of ugly memories. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Is it because I am so ugly now? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Thorn had made the color Seven always thought to be ugly and muddy...absolutely stunning. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was still huge and ugly and leaking. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z He had a dark and ugly face and a mouth twisted with brooding. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no mystery, no ugly surprise down the road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I am not ugly. I am not ugly.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Plus, our school jumper was pretty ugly to start with. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Her brown eyes, brooding deep in her skull, looked out on an ugly world with philosophic sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Safe on the other side, she screamed at us, “I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He also threw himself into house renovations, to make the old and ugly house more livable, and even beautiful. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This bitter submissiveness made the man ugly and brutal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t scratch, miss, unless you want big ugly scars. That’s rule one with chicken pox: break a blister and leave a pit. You’ll resemble Swiss cheese in no time.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I win, you ugly, good-for-nothing buzzard, thought Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Twins—two squat, ugly, formidable castles, identical in every respect, with the bridge arching between—had guarded the crossing for centuries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She tells the pocketa man to be quiet and then she says many ugly words. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Then his ugly face took on a look of profound and outraged sorrow, so simple and truthful that his nakedness in the window-light was dignity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly and asked his name. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gunfire and shells were going off around them, and the airfield was peppered with ugly little antipersonnel mines people called “frogs,” which would explode if you stepped on them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z There’s nothing worse than having to fight for your crummy, ugly sister whom half the neighborhood is in love with. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh... Aibileen... you don’t think..An ugly thought is running through my head. I am too shocked to finish my sentence. Aibileen shakes her head. “No no, no ma’am. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She is crying again, the hard and ugly kind, and I’m ready to promise her anything as long as she stops. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It is an incredibly ugly gruesome-looking animal, rather like a baby crocodile but with a shorter head. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Just strangle him until his eyes pop out of his bald ugly head.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She shakes her fist at the air and says some more ugly words. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She’d been an ugly for four years, but a few extra days had brought home to her exactly what the word really meant Tally peered into her mirror all day, noting every flaw, every deformity. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Only at night could she escape from the tiny room, the nervous stares, her own ugly face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The dog bristled at her, baring its teeth in an ugly snarl, but let her pass by. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I’m saying your mama’s ugly like . . . ummm . . . . . . like bare feet in September! The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ugly but nice, the way his arms were around her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was a push and pull to our history, a deep familiarity that sat atop a deeper and uglier legacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s dirty and ugly, no decorations like crocheted table runners, or framed cross-stitched roses on the walls, no red sofas or plush chairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen it out the window: an ugly, vicious mongrel that was tied up out back and got stupidly and disproportionately worked up by any noise or movement within a hundred yards. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She was dressed in high-waist pants, a canary-yellow T-shirt, and ugly brown loafers. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We both sit on the ugly sofa in her living room. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sponges are ugly, but I think I know what Miss Johnson means. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Tally looked the new ugly in the eye. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “This is the beginning of something too ugly to contemplate,” David said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She made a point of using the ugly scraps until she had a large piece. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “You can die ugly, for all I care.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Head full of pretty hair, but Lord she was ugly.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the perfectly beautiful immortals he only was ugly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The night is black and blue and purple like an ugly bruise. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I had two weeks off for winter break and I drowned my sorrows in music, I stayed up late reading, I trained hard, and I drew ugly, unimpressive things. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She knew he had doomed her to change into an ugly little monster. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that she thought she was ugly or anything, but it was never the glance and grin that it was supposed to be. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Koster averts her eyes, staring down at the new wedding band on her finger, and I have a new, ugly suspicion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as though Wormtail had flipped over a stone and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind — but worse, a hundred times worse. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Hello,” he managed, his voice emerging as an ugly croak. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lazlo’s jibe that it would make him ugly had not missed its mark, but that wasn’t his only concern. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He was an ugly, square-faced black man with popping red eyes, a pail slung over his shoulder. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think it’s ugly here? What kind of lives do we lead without wives and families?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z On the towel rack hung an ugly beige bra. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Tell me you think I’m stupid and ugly and I swear this would hurt less.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z No effort had been spared to make the cabins uncomfortable and ugly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if he is so ugly and mean, maybe I shouldn’t bother with him.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an ugly boy, though admittedly more comely than a certain dwarf with half a nose and a scar from eye to chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure how, or why, but that pretty pink moonball grows in there, inside that ugly erster. Isn’t that funny?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Perched on top of the pole where the raven had been, a fat ugly gryphon glared down at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Amá says Americans eat nothing but garbage, which is why everyone here is so fat and ugly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Richard was always there before her, looking, oddly, much younger and less anonymous without the ugly, tight-fitting, black uniform that he had to wear when working. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Theodore Finch pulls on a backpack, his T-shirt riding up across his stomach where an ugly red scar cuts across the middle. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Old as sin and twice as ugly, the lot of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All around the Keys you can see their propeller trenches—long ugly gouges, like giant fingernail scrapes, across the tidal banks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then Smiley crowded close up behind the driver’s seat to talk ugly about the rich-lookin’ stranger from Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The ugly gray sky of the morning of March 4, 1865, threatened to spoil the great day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right, and things were so great back when everyone was ugly. Or did you miss that day in school?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Despite the fear infiltrating every atom of my body, I felt—very briefly—some pity for the ugly god. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She thought them all to be ugly and overdesigned, but she was so pleased by the rage felt on her behalf that she pointed at one of them and murmured, “O maka. It’s lovely.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I was afraid the show might turn ugly. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z For his heart was heavily beating, His heart was pounding hard, And his ugly chota features, Were colored the color of lard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can take it, or this ugly thing can gather dust on a high shelf for the next ten years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the movies the landlord’s wife was ugly, cruel, and stupid. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Storm tides would frequently submerge their spit of land when the weather turned ugly. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The panic button was there, waiting to be used if the situation blew up fast and ugly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I mean like this—if you heard something bad or cruel or ugly, would you keep it from him?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a queer, ugly smile on his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Not only was I ugly, I was unwise. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes a brief tour: a glimpse of the sea in one district, towering forests in another, ugly factories, fields of wheat, stinking refineries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We got two singles sandwiched around a strikeout and the crowd got ugly. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman in black with ugly blue eyes and a curved blade. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But the truth was, I didn’t need to worry much about fending off advances, seeing how—as Ernie Goad told me on every available occasion—I was pork-chop ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s big like a catfish, and it's got a big head, a big ugly head. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She made an ugly face at me and said, “Yes, I can.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s just about the ugliest cow pulling that wagon that I ever saw, too,” Ben replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel stupid and ugly, although I know I am not either. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His feathers had kept the world from having to gaze upon the ugly side of my face, and they had freed me from the constant worry of covering it. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The ugly thing retracted just an inch, stopped moving its claw, as if shocked at his boldness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Not you, bear. You are big and ugly, you will be chained outside.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That is the true spirit, comrade!” cried Squealer, but it was noticed he cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his little twinkling eyes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Her voice sounded ugly and guttural to her ears, and she did not feel like herself. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One right punch in the face that made an ugly splat. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She was neither beautiful nor ugly; she was like the many young women he used to watch going to the stream in his village every morning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And he’s redoing the bathroom and has changed the ugly brown tiles to a nice baby blue. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She might just as well have asked if she was ugly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The extra syllable in orientate is ugly and unnecessary, though not a federal offense. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel my father receding into the ugly floral cushions beside me as my mom pushed herself forward to perch on the edge of the sofa. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They talked funny, they smelled bad, and they were ugly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They were everything bad and ugly and inescapable. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was a different voice, just as ugly. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z This ugly story seems to have come down in its early brutal form quite unsoftened. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And there, reflected in the glass of a long-closed butcher shop, is the man with one eyebrow, hands in his pockets, pretending to look at an ugly poster about Jews. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When he splattered the ankles of other people, they gave us ugly looks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “I never want to see your ugly faces again,” Cole shouted at the lawyer and his parents after finding out he wouldn’t be released. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z "Find me old, ugly, scarred men, preferably impotent," he had told the eunuch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It wasn't just that her gym suit was ugly. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Grace quickly looked around to see if anyone had overheard that ugly name, but they were in the elevator, alone. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z His chest felt as if a huge and ugly animal were sitting on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I had been right in giving a girl’s name to Lurai, for she laid speckled eggs and, with some help from her mate, hatched two ugly fledglings which soon became beautiful. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When I sit down, it sounds like dozens of mice are dying an ugly death. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The elf’s ugly brown face split suddenly into a wide, toothy smile. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And I realize this guy isn’t wearing the ugly blue and yellow shirt that the clerks here always wear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Every time she unwrapped the blanket, she grimaced — the ugly wounds had turned black, and evil-looking liquid was starting to seep. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Molly has an ugly laugh, all snorting and shaking shoulders, and Drew’s is silent, so it almost looks like he’s in pain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Indian Health Service also funded eyeglass purchases only once a year and offered one style: those ugly, thick, black plastic ones. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Give me the good, the bad and the ugly. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My Noise is so ugly and my face so twisted she hesitates a little but then she takes another step forward. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He turned his ugly, squashed face to Harry and looked up at him with those great yellow eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He was an ugly man, big and fleshy, with an oarsman’s thick shoulders and no neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the world were also dwarfs—ugly creatures, but masterly craftsmen, who lived under the earth; and elves, lovely sprites, who tended the flowers and streams. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched in silence around a corner and she stopped before a large and extremely ugly stone gargoyle. she said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z If one partner found his or her chosen mate to be unacceptably old, cruel, or ugly, guards would sometimes cancel a marriage. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would smack my knuckles so hard that my hands crashed into the keys, causing an ugly dissonant chord to detonate in the middle of the piece. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It stinks of roots and mud and ugly herbs but I’m so tired I let her tie it round my forehead, right over the bandage that’s still stuck on the side of my head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He had a dark and ugly face and a mouth twisted with brooding. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d sneer at her, tell her she was ugly, and say, “Dale mean—she born mean and she gonna stay mean.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "Very good, however it came into your ugly head." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The track bed left behind looked like an ugly black scar slashing through town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He pushed at his ugly black glasses and added, “Your Backpack Buddy.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Eventually, using enough of the ugly clothing, Violet had a rope that was, she hoped, just over thirty feet long. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But there were deeper, uglier reasons for his isolation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I need to move, to go somewhere of my own free will, otherwise I'm going to explode in an ugly way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How would the words of a fugitive, desperate, tragic ugly look through pretty eyes? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "I am your brother, you know. You need me, whether you care to admit it or no. Your son needs me, if he's to have a hope of retaining that ugly iron chair." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The ugly duckling grows into a swan, Pinocchio becomes a boy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I thought, hearing the bird make an ugly noise. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The face of Charles Parker was very ugly to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This isn’t true of everything we call ugly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As she jogged up her front steps, something ugly and awful was forming in my mind, but I couldn’t quite find the right words for it—or I didn’t want to. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “How is she still teaching? Do you remember those notes I hid all over her classroom that said, ‘You’re an ugly hag, and you’ll die alone.’?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The troll didn’t even seem to notice the pipe hitting its shoulder, but it heard the yell and paused again, turning its ugly snout toward Ron instead, giving Harry time to run around it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But though I was ugly, I was a good king. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z On the white door ugly blotches were left. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z But it kept rearing its ugly head, coming out in different ways. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I'm pretty sure we're getting away until this punk comes out of nowhere, he's one of Blade's gang and he's got this big ugly grin. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z David helped his mother, searching the ruins for salvage, and taught wilderness survival tricks to any ugly who wanted to learn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Othor had been a big ugly man, and he made a big ugly corpse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Barry sat on the steps next to what had to be the ugliest fountain in all of San Francisco. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No one was foolish enough to try to pull off the ugly halter and nose chain to perfect the shot. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you thought the red in our pendants was ugly, but...I wanted to show you that in another light, it could be quite beautiful.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The deletions are tempting to a writer because they tighten up a sentence’s rhythm and avoid the ugly sibilance of which. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “But you were slop. And when I didn’t need you any more you tried to stop me. Take that ugly smirk off your face.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I pick up my sack and say, cool as you please, “Look like they hired ’em ugly before me too.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Ugwu could not bear to think of the man’s ugly body thrusting into his sister’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Hardly a pretty, but she didn’t feel like an ugly, either. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The ugly man climbed the tree, but when the bees came out to sting him, they couldn’t get through the scabs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I tighten my mouth and look apologetically at Elouise, and then spend sixty seconds doodling something that resembles an ugly waterfall. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The insosuit was far bulkier and far uglier than the regulation spacesuit; but withal considerably lighter, due to the fact that they were entirely nonmetallic in composition. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She went on to say how Jalil’s wives had called her an ugly, lowly stone carver’s daughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They pointed at her, and Tally heard the word “ugly” on their lips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I looked at my feet in their white socks and ugly round shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers beard is ugly and I don’t want him anywhere around me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Sweat forms on my big forehead, and I rub my hands on my ugly PE shorts. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It only took me about five minutes to make my way out of my ugly little oatmeal subdivision. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Your nose isn’t ugly. I like your eyes, too.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I should cut his tongue out, see how funny he thinks that is, ’cause there’s sure nothing funny about being called ugly. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She says some other words, too, words no one should hear, they are so ugly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I seriously don’t know what she saw in him, because not only was he ugly, he had the personality of a boiled potato. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But they don’t really believe they almost died, or that they look ugly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stumble over to an ugly beige chair in the middle of this ugly beige room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When you looked at O’Brien’s powerful shoulders and his blunt- featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Things weren’t as ugly as they could have been — the cancer hadn’t gone to other systems — but they weren’t great, either. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their ugly little faces peered up at the dorm’s four-story height, their eyes full of wonder and terror. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sadness falls off my mother a little bit each day, like peeling the ugly brown fuzz off a kiwi fruit and finding the sweet green goodness inside. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An ugly bluebottle crept along his cheek before buzzing off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I know it’s just a stupid American saying, but I really don’t appreciate being called such an ugly animal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Because the ugly witch turned her into one—that was why. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Declining to leave any slur unvoiced, he concluded, “And you are ugly.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This was exactly what no one would have expected, and of course villains were not announced with hisses or soliloquies, they did not come cloaked in black, with ugly expressions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Special shoes as in ugly shoes? Why can’t I just wear mine?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “I want you to tell me about the thing you find yourself married to—your life, that is. I want you to tell me why you don’t think your life is ugly.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he thought it might be Yassen, but it was a younger man, dark haired, ugly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The sick man jumped up with a mighty curse and several ugly statements about my character. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z One tile had an ugly crack across the middle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Yah Capital and Democrats, says the ugly one with the mustache. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was no need to be nostalgic—it was always an ugly place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She turned in time to see Oomen’s ugly face split in a determined grimace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Even the ugly people in the magazine were beautiful. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z No one mentions the ugly tools of torture just yards from the front door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He surveyed the dusty barnyard in front of him, the ugly ruts of dried mud where tractors and trucks had left their tracks. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He patted the ugly green hat next to him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I'm scared people will always think I'm ugly. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The place seemed to be a geometrically reconfigured 1960s bachelor pad, with open stonework, pile carpeting, and magnificently ugly mushroom-shaped stained glass lampshades. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Despite the love of a mother and a father for their son, despite my general health and well-being, I was still ugly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When he looks down at the wet field, he thinks the grass looks like ugly hair sticking up from a bloody head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But finally he changed, as what is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s ugly, all right, a big rodent with a fuzz of mottled gray fur and two wicked-looking gnawing teeth protruding over its lower lip. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Having grown up in a world of widespread antisemitism, he feared that “any demand for his rights” would lead to ugly comments about money and Jews. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And when you “challenged” and ugly, it pretty much makes no never mind what else you are. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But it was still very young and very ugly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “He must not only be a shy billionaire. He must be a real ugly billionaire.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the rack of maps and brochures, there was a collection of postcards that were so ugly the visitor center should have been giving them away. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It’s ugly—seeing the names, pictures of other black boys makes it hard to forget them. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I’ll tell him it’s just as ugly, too, and my skin is about that scaly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will not pay even one leone. She can walk...and she isn’t my daughter,” he answered gruffly, clearly insulted by the man’s assumption that he had fathered such an ugly child. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not love the house itself; he thought it was rather ugly and looked neither charmingly old nor refreshingly new. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he rubbed them on his sweater as if to remove an ugly mark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z However, though scientists can detect black holes, they still haven’t spotted the zeros at their centers, since the ugly singularities are shielded by the event horizon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The next few weeks were black and ugly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “The Lord don’t like ugly,” Big Ma told her mother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The tears are ugly, but she is still beautiful, and there is no way I'm letting her go. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There was just a sea of ugly stumps and barren, eroded dirt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The spirit world would never speak to such an ugly girl, no matter how hard or long I listened. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The biopsy But the doctor had made it clear that the ugly black hunk of skin was something bad. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And I’m not talking about no ugly chicks either. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Watch out for the ugly man with no ears.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Thor could not help staring: the old woman had nine hundred heads, each head uglier and more terrifying than the last. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Her only strength was her dark and ugly magic. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z My attempts were so shaky, so misshapen, so ugly, it looked like I’d interpreted running writing to mean writing done while running in a race. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In the decades and centuries to come, there would often be fierce debate as to what constituted an appropriate combination of notes, or what cluster was beautiful, or ugly, or seductive, or discordant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z June yelps, pulling his hair and receiving a very ugly face in response. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Antisemitism was everywhere in American life, but at work William saw its ugly face up close. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes, and I swear I saw, or felt, right at that moment something dark and ugly and bottomless back away from a certain hospital door in Springfield. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “I wonder what happens if you scare a narwhal. Maybe karma gives you a gigantic zit in the middle of your forehead and you get called an ugly unicorn for a month.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s just say it. There’s going to be more of this press. It’s going to look ugly. But everything’s going to be just fine. This just comes with the job. I’ll be all right.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The thick ugly odors of unwashed bodies and rotting flesh from the shallow graves behind the buildings grew stronger. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There he licked the hot blood off his fingers and watched as that ugly yellow cat calmly devoured a small water snake over by the irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Dark is not ugly. Get that out of your minds right now.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was still an ugly scar across her stomach, but it had sealed into a thin, jagged line. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But she’s hung our clothes on the hooks in the bedroom, put the ugly rugs that were over our windows on the floor, and stacked the dishes on the shelf beside the sink. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I’m too ugly to be a narcissist,” he said. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He washed the ugly sore over and over again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But he thought most of the things were quite ugly. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reminder of how ugly my life was. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I feel kind of ugly next to her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I was called on day and night to X-ray all types of ugly wounds to see if the bones behind the bruised or bleeding flesh had been cracked, chipped, or broken. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Of course they too once lived a savage life, ugly and brutal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This octopus is so ugly, it is a bit simpático. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they think the whole chair is ugly, and if there is one thing you know from years and years in the business, it is that people don’t buy chairs they think are ugly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When he thought of someone writing that ugly thing on her book . . . it made him feel like Bill Bixby just before he turned into the Hulk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Nearby, he sees an ugly little man with long yellow hair and a face like a weasel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s empty except for a huge, ugly old chest that Quinton got from the thrift store when we were younger. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She had three other girls behind her, all big and ugly and mean looking like her, all wearing camo jackets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z One thing’s certain—he’s an ugly, ill-mannered brute. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The two had never been close, and people still teased Gladys, saying she was too mean and ugly to be Henrietta’s sister. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Tally didn’t have much experience in judging an ugly’s age, but she turned out to be more or less right. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He cleaned the long ugly wound and applied a poultice of herbs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Over the next few years, he tinkered and fussed obsessively with his ideas—arranging and rearranging “ugly facts” like his fossil specimens, but he never got around to publishing the theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was green and ugly when you looked at it up close. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Up close the man was even taller and uglier than I remembered. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instead of roots, a small, muddy, and extremely ugly baby popped out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Even if they weren’t intentionally tracking us, I’m sure they are now. They were probably forced to memorize your ugly mug and Psi number. We already know you’re a tasty treat for the skip tracers.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His ugly green army bag lifted on his back along with a rifle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Gently, he lifted my hair shield, revealing the ugly scar for everyone to see. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was misshapen and ugly, but there was no help for that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I think you offended him, friend Ranofer. He has an ugly glint in his eye.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He looked at her, not because she was woman this time, and not that she was ugly and gaunt and yellow-skinned. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was an ugly, desolate store, with posters of Marvel superheroes taped to the wall, where all you heard were stories of things that might have happened. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z An ugly fancy, I thought, might do us both some good, snap us into clarity, though how and when I had no idea. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t smell like an ugly old lizard at all. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to be twins, because their faces were identically ugly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They have a hole through the toe that I tried to fix nearly a year ago, but my sewing skills are poor, and I wound up just making them ugly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Accompanied by six guards and a prayer-murmuring chaplain, he entered the death place handcuffed and wearing an ugly harness of leather straps that bound his arms to his torso. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But it didn’t take the ugly thoughts away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t stop her from pitching me off Mount Olympus when she saw my ugly face.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a tropical climate, so we get some rain every day. We can make a tarp out of Miss Massachusetts’s ugly evening gown to collect that rainwater to drink.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Shireen was a homely child, made even uglier by the greyscale that had left her neck and part of her cheek stiff and grey and cracked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This strengthened the metal but turned it an ugly pinkish-copper color. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She helped me see that even after an ugly fall from the high bar, a giant was nothing I couldn’t handle. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, shielding his head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He was as predictable as he was ugly, but Tyrion was hungry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For a while you would have an ugly, unpopular kid for a friend. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Must have been right next to that ugly sweater,” her friend adds. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z For the mirror took beautiful things and made them ugly, and it took ugly things and made them hideous. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I remember District 8, an ugly urban place stinking of industrial fumes, the people housed in run-down tenements. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But it was a tradition nobody questioned, except the occasional ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words with the consonants and vowels as regular as Italian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis kept watch while Henry and I went up to the attic and searched through broken lamps, cardboard boxes, ugly Art I oil paintings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He thought for a moment that McLaggen might punch him, but he contented himself with an ugly grimace and stormed away, growling what sounded like threats to thin air. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In fact, he said she was mean and ugly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Rufus said that was the ugliest name he had ever heard, but it was Alice’s choice, and he let it stand. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The other boys did not worry, for they had other things to think about—but for the ugly one it was the whole of an obscure and mystic life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She was an ugly stranger who squinted with one eye. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You would not be in this car with me if you were,” he said, “and stop biting your nails, they are ugly enough already.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine what a world it would be if we gleaned only ugly people!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But they’d always seemed that way. wise and confident, and at the same time disconnected from whatever ugly, real-life problems Tally was having. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t push your luck, brother. Briares has fifty faces; all of them are ugly. He’s got a hundred hands, and he’s still all thumbs around the house.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z God, they’re ugly, with their plump white bodies and red heads and drooping wattles, which resemble inflamed scrotums, if she’s being honest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It’s an ugly business. We’ll put a crew of boarders on, try to pull her off in the confusion.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z As we fought, they called me poor and ugly and dirty, and it was hard to argue the point. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Would you want to know that? Would you want to know that you might turn into a big ugly mean person like her?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “When it gets too ugly, just close your eyes,” she said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Sam’s wound was not deep, but it looked ugly, and Aragorn’s face was grave as he examined it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "You're uglier than me. At least I don't have ears like a bat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One of them once, seeing himself in a mirror that passed on a van of household goods, had cried out, “There is an ugly fellow!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Lead the way,” he said promptly, and he swept off along the corridor behind Harry, leaving Snape standing next to the gargoyle and looking twice as ugly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My plan was to follow this catwalk to a prominent rock prow in the center of the wall and thereby execute an end run around the ugly, avalanche-swept lower half of the face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was no bonobo expert, but he was the ugliest I’d ever seen. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Never show your face in it again. Your evil, ugly, beastlike face.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s pitiful and ugly seeing remaining ash, blackened trees and ground. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “It is I, Tenorio Trementina, who accuses her!” he shouted and jumped forward so that I could plainly see his ugly face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z These things wouldn’t have been as appealing if she had been ugly, instead of blond and ethereal. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And so when they came upon an ugly warthog, they shot it immediately. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z When her husband found out, things quickly turned ugly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One of his rangers, a big ugly man, sang a bawdy song as he saddled his garron, his breath steaming in the cold morning air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Either Tally infiltrated the Smoke and betrayed Shay, or she’d be an ugly for life. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I’m so ugly now. Do you have a cigarette?” she repeated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At his feet, the ugly cauldron seemed to mock him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to see how far the ugly mark extended. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z ‘And to take that ugly thing away from her?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z How many times had Special Circumstances tried to get an ugly to work for them before? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Everything strong about Mom’s face looked defiant and ugly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She saw the charming, ugly face, talking so seriously about the interests of its honest heart She loved these interests—loved the old soldier to follow so faithfully his innocent love of God. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The man flew, Stella said, like an ugly bird. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z It was so loud the boat vibrated with it, an ugly hum in the fiberglass. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Buttoning the three buttons in front, she remembered suddenly how she had thought the dark blue dress Gitl had given her ugly, how she’d called it a rag. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And I try telling her it will be much better for me to watch silly Snapchat videos than to watch the news and see protests getting uglier and uglier. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z God, a man could be ugly when he cried. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Tinkerbell’s once perfect little nose had completely disappeared, and her saucy red lips had been replaced with an ugly, lopsided smear. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The Maafa lurked just offshore, squat and ugly in the shallows like a diseased leviathan that had washed into the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the meantime, while I watch the thin, beautiful mestizos living glamorous lives on TV, and the fat, ugly indigenas serving them, I try hard, very hard, to hang on to Jose’s slippery words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s uglier up there than it looks on a page or a screen because it’s not a picture or a prop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The sounds of footsteps, ugly words, insulting shouts, and whispered commands formed an echoing clamor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The stands were scarred, the walls needed paint, the naked light bulbs seemed ugly, their bare, black wires like the dead branches of a stunted tree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Those ugly green signs marking exits off the interstate? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve had lots of time for it. I want to ask you something. I can’t remember behind the last ugly thing. Was she very beautiful, Samuel?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No wonder no boy likes you. You ugly.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He is a big man, heavy, and ugly. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Bellatrix’s face, so recently flushed with happiness, had turned an ugly, blotchy red. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We know that goblin women fight and rule alongside their men—hulking, ugly beasts, dreadfully unlike the beauties of our own elfin aristocracy, who are bred for their delicacy to be ornaments to society. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I remember how he would make fun of Joe Namath in those old cologne commercials, remark that he was too ugly a man to have so many beautiful women surrounding him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more obvious than ever that this was never meant to be a silly stunt; the point here was never to make me look ugly or stupid. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I look so ugly I’m scared of myself.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Memories of Ucho thrusting a stick in my side, of Ucho leading other boys as they screeched ugly words to my face, of Ucho throwing dirt at me, crowded about my mind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She was sick of this whole ugly business, and just wanted it to end. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t think you are ugly—or wrong.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My ears still poke through my hair, and my nose still seems too wide for my face, but I don't see the ugly version of myself I normally do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She had worked up an image of Orion as a towering ugly demon, even worse than Polybotes, the giant who had attacked Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like the makeover scenes in my American movies, where they take the dorky guy or girl, fix the hair and change the clothes, and the ugly duckling becomes the swan. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She didn't think she could start telling Park the whole, ugly truth overnight. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z An ugly girl should dress in ugly clothing, she decided, so she chose a stained brown cloak fraying at the hem, a musty green tunic smelling of fish, and a pair of heavy boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Spitting, the gray cat shot out of hiding, and when Flatnose tried to grab it the cat raked his ugly face with its claws. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He knew the article because it was the ugly obverse of the real story, the one that lived inside him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nearly everyone was ugly, and would still have been ugly even if dressed otherwise than in the uniform blue overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But nobody stepped off a curb, everybody kept moving north, an ugly, snarling black-and-white escort for the kid in the middle. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s sitting at the white kitchen table staring out the window with an ugly look on her face like her poor fancy life is just too hot a hell to live in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “They just use them to make horrible noises which are ugly to see and worse to hear. I leave all that to Dr. Dischord and that awful, awful DYNNE.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’d say you’re sixteen. And in case you were wondering, five foot nine . . . brown hair. Oh, and ugly as fried liver on a stick.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When I saw him, and he commented on the rescue, I was going to say, “Yeah, it was pretty ugly.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z When she leaned in to kiss me, I turned away as I always did, so her lips were spared the pain of touching my ugly face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z When I stopped, he surprised me by talking about my academic situation, which we had never discussed again after the ugly meeting I’d had with my teachers. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings are flat and ugly, and the pens, crammed with panicked, lowing cattle and filthy, snuffing pigs, butt right up against the tracks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The other ugly one, Laverne, thought she was a very witty type. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Had her mother finished scraping and tanning that ugly moose hide or would she have to help her? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Without my ponytails, I’m the ugliest girl in the world. And I’m a bad girl too, just like you said I am.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z An ugly little girl and a sad fool, and maester makes three . . . now there is a tale to make men weep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Why, Martha, dear,” Ern mimicked, in shocked tones, "Where did you learn such an ugly word?” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these days, he’s going to call me ugly, and I’m going to ugly myself on outta there. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle rushed out and bought a pair of dogskin gloves, some ugly, thick shoes, and an umbrella, and got shaved à la mutton chop, the first thing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Girdle: such an ugly word, a word as gross as what it does. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Can’t believe they ripped up everything they got their ugly hands on,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Pinkus explained how when times got ugly, things got uglier for some people than for other people. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to walk to the Master Oak, but that was ruined, too, with Bill Corso’s big, ugly initials. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Why have you pinned your little heart to an old, ugly hag like me?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She shows me a wide range of photos of rooms ranging from fancy to simple, elaborate to plain, ugly to beautiful. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to wear anything real pretty and lacy to the game. I prefer to wear something real ugly and frumpy instead.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them, an ugly, grinning warrior, caught sight of Taran. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He moved like a panther, and that ugly sword of his seemed a part of his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Muller was sick of America—its dirty science, ugly politics, and selfish society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And the only decoration on the peeling walls was a large and ugly painting of an eye, matching the one on Count Olaf’s ankle and all over the house. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “He’s so ugly, when he was born his mama thought he was a backward centaur—with a horse butt for a face.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His whole naked ugly body was as red as a strawberry, except for his two balls which were the brightest blue you have ever seen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if in an instant, a painted window shatters, revealing the ugly world behind it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Okay, okay. But the weather is ugly, and I woke up with a migraine. Plus, Penny is sick, and Butterscotch threw up on the carpet. I had to put her in the basement.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And it was one of the ugliest of things that brought ravens into my life and made them my medicine bird. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, she just wanted to take in everything: the puzzled, terrified expressions on the Gustano kids’ faces; the strange, ugly buildings around them; the emptiness of the street before them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “We can finally cut that old ugly thing down now,” says Miss Celia. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It warmed Meggie’s heart just to see it, but all too often it disappeared behind the tall, ugly buildings covering the narrow strip of land that lay between the water and the encroaching hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty certain they’re ugly. But I would have to see them on.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The hard part would be getting across the burbs, a risky place to have an ugly face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z From the start, they were fighting an uneven battle, and the conflict got uglier as new players came on the scene. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His large ugly face came nearer, with the eyes a little narrowed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “When I woke up I saw that ugly cat sitting in my window, so I knew I was still alive.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But I loved those ugly little bats, the way they darted past, their wings in a furious blur. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z How I hated myself, thwarted, poisoned and tortured myself, made myself old and ugly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was something not natural about it all—something like an ugly joke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Like he used to be. Bagging groceries in that ugly apron.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She heard his ugly words aimed not so much at her as at himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A catfish is the ugliest thing with gills, and even Mary Alice drew back her feet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Folks sometimes do ugly things, Hiram, but that don’t necessarily make them evil. A lot of good folks just make stupid decisions or get themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z You have to wear extremely ugly PE clothes that I am positive someone made just to make sure I would look extra bad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The epicenter of activity was a monstrously ugly concrete building, the Summit Information Center, with big windows, broad viewing platforms, and an exceedingly lively cafeteria. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Tonight I am taking ugly and making beautiful. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Maybe someone could say the Brown Bomber was old and ugly, but you could never say anything bad about its seats, they were the best thing? in the world. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover translated: “Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium” Flanking the entrance, as advertised, were two cement garden gnomes, ugly bearded little runts, smiling and waving, as if they were about to get their picture taken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The thing is, the same kind of ugly anger lives in me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What he saw was every bit as ugly as it sounded. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were carrion birds in the sky, circling and cawing ugly cries that Lazlo imagined translated as Die so we can eat you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Rojakke touched his fingers to the ugly bruise forming on his cheek, looking surprised and a bit betrayed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But even after a half hour of walking, all that remains of the beating I took are ugly bruises and a dull soreness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Nobody wanted me. I must be too ugly.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Should I turn left,” says Henry, “or is there an uglier cow up ahead?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Or I could take my chances and make my ugly way in a sometimes ugly world just the way I was. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z His face was all ugly from the beating, his nose swollen and one eye closed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’d said the ugliest thing possible to his dad, and now he was paying the price. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He frowned as he did so, wondering to himself why his son had said that his new bride was so beautiful when in reality she was so ugly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Klaus looked distastefully at each ugly shirt Mrs. Poe had bought for him as he folded them and put them into a small suitcase. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z From Crazy in Birdland Dear Crazy: I think your bird is mad at you because you named him after an ugly Australian wild dog. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z "Hold up....First of all, I ain't no ugly thing. Just so we clear. But I'm that. A water bear." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The next day I bought another rug, very ugly, for next to nothing, then nailed it over the other window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z No, Eleanor told herself; it’s partly because everything seems so dark around here, and partly because I expected that man’s wife to be ugly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He was so strong and ugly that no one wanted to take him in. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She started catcalling at the female demons: “Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Its ugly mouth gaped wide enough to hold a human body. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The master had said, “You are ugly people.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it’s black, dirty, ugly, and a sad sight, at least in our part of town. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It is furnished, but rather ugly’’ The house was tall and skinny, like all the houses around it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, after a visit, she cried and told her sister in a moment of desperation and honesty, “He is so ugly.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need you here. This could be a long night. Might get pretty ugly.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z When Lena said, “Mama, what is he walking like that for?” he said, “I’ll walk any way I want to, including over your ugly face.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a room full of big, ugly, angry men. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Even if she was just an ugly, a promise was a promise. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Was that Effie again? Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,” said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was ugly, a landscape of last resort. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That ugly painting above my bed was just so cruel. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Looking up into his ugly face, I knew he would do just what he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The ache and the beauty of Billie’s words captivate me, despite the ugly images they bring to mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After going on about the margarine, they started fighting about whether or not some painting Mom had done was ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Leo had been in enough rough schools and foster homes to sense when things were about to turn ugly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And his face held a kind of confidence that Tally had never seen in an ugly before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She would have a big ugly scar there for the rest of her life, but the wound still seemed to be healing all right—no unusual darkening or swelling. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe less than you because I know all of its aching past and some of its stinking future. That’s an ugly word, sir, but there’s no other.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain damage left me nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, so my ugly glasses were all lopsided because my eyes were so lopsided. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The expression on his face was ugly, calculating, and there was something of triumph too in his light blue eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly. All biologists want to know why. Just like your mom and Fred,” he said, ripping another sack of ugly from the inside of a fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something. We should get a patch for it.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The mothers laughed and mumbled among themselves that yes, it was ugly. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Oh, that wolf tree is ugly all right. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The coal dust makes everything look especially ugly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The building was an ugly green, decked out in artificial trees laden with fake gold and silver coins. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “How are you still alive, you ugly thing?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The fire had left the ugly smell of smoke stamped and sealed on every piece of clothing that had survived the flames. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It registered on me after a time that the mine was not the cold, dank, ugly place I’d always imagined it to be. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Kasim has his old, ugly car back and it feels like the first day we went out together. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She couldn’t stand another day like this, not knowing if her ugly purgatory would ever end. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Before I could answer, he winked and said in a loud voice, “Of course no dozd would waste his time on a car as ugly as my brother’s.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The entrance wound on his back was an ugly shade of purple and it steamed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was thick and raised, wrapping around the bottom of his leg like an ugly bracelet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We’d stopped at my locker at lunch one day so I could switch out my books, and he waited for me, leaning against the wall of ugly metal units, occasionally peering into my open locker. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z If one of us breaks a leg or shoulder in these exploits, that is probably the end of both of us; there, precisely, is the risk—rather an ugly one when looked at closely. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The electric bulb suspended from the ceiling burned with ugly sharpness in the dawn. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z My ugly PE clothes will not be fine. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “The benefit of being the ugly daughter is that nobody uses you as sex bait.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That stirred-up ugly feeling of not being able to do nothing came back, dogging me all the way home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z An ugly feeling of hopelessness wells up in me, and I have to fight tears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They dared not go to bed with over a thousand British soldiers suddenly camped upon them—defeated soldiers whose mood might turn ugly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What did Shay or any ugly really know about the Smoke? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I dance with a smile on my face, even when my partners are ugly, or terrible dancers, so that they won’t feel bad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She start that ugly thing after what happen in seventh grade. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It lay there, with the ugly mouth opening and shutting, still trying to bite something. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “For real, though, I hope you never end up in a place where you feel ugly.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “If he had been Sir Lancelot, you could not have mistaken him. He was the ugliest man I have ever seen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy offered her an ugly stuffed rabbit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a long, mostly grim trip past ugly suburbs, decaying industrial plants, slums, and vast rail and truckyards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the big stove that sits in the middle, black and ugly with who knows how many years of other folks’ grease and dirt cooked in, it still feels like a home. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z I would feel, all at once, alone and ugly, almost—as if I’d dirtied myself—obscene. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In our basement I found an oversized knit sweater, stained and hole-ridden, and an ugly blue dress, which Mother bleached to a faded brown. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I want to forget the way they laughed —their smiles were so ugly I almost feared. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Good, that means you don’t have to look at my ugly mug,” Sammy answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The brothers Joked that he had been given the two ugliest men in the Night's Watch; being blind, he was spared having to look at them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It must be horrible to see an ugly face when you’re surrounded by such beautiful people all the time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s just boring not being able to gossip with anyone. The boys were cute, but the girls there had no sense of style. Most of them were wearing the ugly brigaduita uniforms. Ugh.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A little red and flaking skin should go quite nicely with the scratches on her ugly face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was brutally physical, and ugly—although in some small way there was a sense of excitement to the incident in the subway, a sense of being, if not powerful, then less weak. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I moved furniture and packed the ugly dishes while receiving advice in a nonstop stream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She didn’t have many options now, and all of them were ugly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was ugly, crooked, and crowded, but the Slat was gloriously dry. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is a shocking contrast to the ugly truth I am about to reveal to Ethan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Byron said he could remember that she was the meanest, ugliest person in the world but he was probably lying, he was only four the last time Momma and Dad were here. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, you got some people who do ugly things, but I think, mostly, if they had a good chance they would be okay. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If I have one saving grace, it's that I'm lucky enough to have found someone willing to handle the ugly business of day-to-day living. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “It was just a regular black bear that hurt you. Probably an ugly one!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “So you had to become ugly too. Otherwise, who’d trust you?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There’s just me and my ugly, useless stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I don't want to be crushed, but it's possible they are talking about me, not the ugly, exposed area that is now the centerpiece of the courtyard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Lettie went on, “And one of those evil root people. Look at that ugly bracelet. It looks like it has bugs living in it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This is an ugly old woman they seem to have made up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious, revealing latent energy and an intellectual force that could be felt at once. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at it for a while, in love with the idea that something so ugly could be hiding something so beautiful in its center. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that an ugly, used lute might not sell very well in a city full of nobility and prosperous musicians. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But a week after our first talk, here I was again, sitting across from his ugly face in his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She said good-bye to them in a daze, flinching inside when she recognized the expression in their old and ugly faces: They felt sorry for her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But I didn’t really mean it, and I didn’t say it loud and ugly. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though I still felt miserable, and knew that I was, most likely, ugly, it was the first time she ever talked to me like I was something besides my mother’s white child. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The first thing you know traffic was blocked in four directions by a crowd whose mood quickly grew so ugly that I really got apprehensive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “There it is, that ugly thing. I hope you don’t mind, I had to check something in the minutes from the meeting.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It is a beautiful black girl that brings the tape recorder, and here I lie, flat on my backside in this bed, so ugly, so weak. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get your ugly snout outta my house! And don’t come back!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He pounded the robot’s head with his heavy hooves, denting and crushing it into an ugly shape, and with one final crack the head broke loose, soared through the air, and squelched into the muck. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Of course, her gaze went straight to that ugly molasses tank rising up in the distance. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z I’m not all that ugly, or that stupid, I have a sunny disposition, and I want to develop a good character! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z "Just as she hides her baldness with a wig, she must also hide her ugly witch's feet by squeezing them into pretty shoes." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Adam thought how a man doing an ugly or a brutal thing has hurt himself and must punish someone for the hurt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Some folks call oil country ugly, but I say it’s got its own kind of pretty,” she’d said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Not only is the cast getting moldy from my sweat, but it’s beginning to cut into my flesh and leave ugly welts on my skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They looked over the flat dry dusty valley and the ugly mushroom towns and they saw a loveliness—who knows? maybe in our lifetime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The only problem was getting to the ugly belly. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She was howling with laughter, an ugly kind of humor, the sort that comes from making fun of another person. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Then it turned into a wrestling match and things got ugly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It shows two girls in niqab, vlogging, accompanied by really simple, ugly white doodles and words scratched on top of almost every image. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Those ugly memories wove through his thoughts during the first months like bad threads through a carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ged thought her very ugly, but he had a desire to please her, to win her admiration, that grew on him as they talked. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She'd probably have the money to do that, and she always thought it was ugly. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He took the world more seriously than any other ugly she’d ever met—more seriously, in fact, than middle pretties like her parents. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But I know there will be too many ugly gaps for any real picture to exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z There were eyes painted on the church door, narrow red eyes, and ugly stone demons the height of a man stood on either side of the entrance, their teeth bared like savage dogs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The garbage dumps had been blown clear of snow and stood out stark and ugly against the white. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was a luxury to have something so beautiful when the weather was so ugly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the last week, Tally had learned that Shay only used her ugly nickname as a put-down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But then I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “That is what the relatives of the ugly monkey, enwe, told him to make him feel better, that good looks come in different ways.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Trust when we say that for a time there, it seemed like there was a real ugly force in this city that was prepared to do anything to stay in power.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If it showed its ugly face again now, it was dead! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Reporters called her “a reformatory Amazon” and “an ungainly hermaphrodite, part male, part female with an ugly face and shrill voice.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Underneath that towel I start to see ugly green. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Death was ugly, I had learned, but life could be even uglier and unfathomably cruel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her foot is swollen again, an ugly deep red. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z But then he remembered the ugly look he had seen on his Uncle’s face the moment before Polly had vanished: and all at once he saw through Uncle Andrew’s grand words. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z When he was finished he sucked his fingers noisily, and threw the bones to his ugly spotted dog. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The ugly girl sat next to him and put a coin on the lip of the pool between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was an old fish with ugly spots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant gramophone stuck now, suddenly, on a grinding, wailing, sardonic trumpet-note; this blind, ugly crying swelled the moment and filled the room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I had meant to cover my legs if anybody came in, but now I saw it was too late, so I let them stick out, just as they were, disgusting and ugly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Utah ugly, Christian ugly, ugliness couched in dog whistles and toothy white smiles. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “No autographs, girls. I know you want some Leo time, but I’m way too cool. You better just hang around that ugly dweeb Narcissus. He’s lame!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It’s like Halloween, only better. It’s the ugliest, gooshiest thing you ever saw, and I bet both of you wet your pants,” Tom said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom wants me to wear this really ugly shirt.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I guessed it was my fault that she had had to wreck her own lunch by pounding Gully upside his ugly head with it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I come to school in the mornings wearing those ugly shorts and T-shirt and then race to the girls' room to change before math. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun disappeared behind one of them, and its shadow fell across the green grass like an ugly mark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Every living thing deserves our respect,” said Medwyn, knitting, his shaggy brows, “be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes! When it’s going to get too ugly! Only you mustn’t say anything. We need a signal. I know! You will give a little cough—like this!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z |
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