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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ugly as Sin "Sin is a creature of such hideous mien That to be hated needs but to be seen." Pope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "UGLY AS SIN": as ugly as sin ♦ she is as ugly as sin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "UGLY AS SIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | hässlich wie die sünde (as ugly as sin), hässlich wie die nacht (as ugly as sin), häßlich wie die Sünde (as ugly as sin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yuglay asay insay e urâtã de mama focului (she is as ugly as sin). (various references) страшен как смертный грех (ugly as a scarecrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: slayings. | |
-2 letters: gassily, lungyis, nilgaus, sayings, signals, slaying. | |
-3 letters: algins, aligns, assign, gainly, glassy, inlays, lasing, laying, liangs, ligans, lingas, lingua, lungis, lungyi, lyings, lysing, lysins, nilgau, saying, signal, singly, slangs, slangy, slings, sluing, snails, snugly, syngas, unlays, unsays, yulans. | |
-4 letters: algin, align, anils, ayins, gaily, gains, gassy, gauss, glans, glass, glias, guans, gussy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-s-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: reassuringly, surpassingly. | |
+5 letters: subclassifying. | |
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| 1. Expressions 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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