UGLY AS SIN

  

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UGLY AS SIN

Specialty Definition: UGLY AS SIN

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms within Context: UGLY AS SIN

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Expressions: UGLY AS SIN

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.

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Modern Translation: UGLY AS SIN

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

   

Romanian

  

e urâtã de mama focului (she is as ugly as sin). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

страшен как смертный грех (ugly as a scarecrow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UGLY AS SIN

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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