Ugly

Definition: Ugly

Ugly

Adjective

1. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly".

2. Deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums".

3. Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind".

4. Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them".

5. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly".

6. Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ugly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Tips from 1870

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

Synonyms: Ugly

Bad Man

Rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother, ruffian, bully, meanie; Jonathan Wild; hangman.

Disapprobation

Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.

Evil doer

Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief.

Failure

Go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.

Good Man

Brick, trump, gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough, rough diamond, ugly duckling.

Pitfall

Ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort; firebrand, hornet's nest.

Ugliness

Verb: be ugly; Adjective: look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces.

Render ugly; Adjective: deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish; (injure); soil; (render unclean).

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;

Wind

Windiness .Adjective: ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.

Crosswords: Ugly

When danger reared his ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Private Pyle, you are so ugly. you are uglier than a modern art masterpiece (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick)

I'm tall, dark and handsome, and you're third world ugly. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

The theatuh, the theatuh -- what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Jarra, you are under arrest for being that ugly, and for making that many copies (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

But now it's gettin' ugly (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)

God help you if you are an ugly (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

To change the ugly ways of the world (I Did It; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

I'm not as ugly sad as you (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6)

Beauty to me is ugly to you (Too Beautiful; performing artist: Heart)

Pretty ugly (references; author: unknown)

Where do you get virgin wool from?  Ugly sheep. (references; author: unknown)

Work Is First Priority: Too ugly to get a date. (references; author: unknown)

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone! (references; author: unknown)

Aircraft Identification: If it's ugly, it's British; if it's weird, it's French; if it's ugly and weird, it's Russian. (references; author: unknown)

The Ugly Dachshund (1966)

Land of the Ugly Duckling (1952)

The Ugly Dino (1940)

Ugly Duckling (1939)

The Ugly Duckling (1931)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Instrumental) (performing artist: Hugo Montenegro)

Morality's Ugly Head (performing artist: Timothy Leary)

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

References

• Ugly Duckling Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (reference)

• Robertson, Ugly and Nohow (reference)

• A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me: A Book of Nonsense Verse (reference)

• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (reference)

• Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Man With No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (reference)

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (reference)

• Coyote Ugly (reference)

• Ugly Dachshund (reference)

• Ugly Duckling & Other Treasured Tales (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• God Loves Ugly (reference)

• Ugly American (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Butt Ugly Martians Zoom & Doom (reference)

• Butt Ugly Martians Battles (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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An ugly fish and a redfish on the deck of the ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Scorpionfish's ugly visage allows it to hide in northern seaweed beds. Scorpaena plumieri. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

An ugly customer! The head of a barracuda. Credit: Sanctuaries.

"The Big Ugly" just west of Abert Rim. Credit: John Craig.

Ten ugly facts for beautiful young women. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ugly dog. Credit: Library of Congress.

They seem to be in an ugly mood!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Congressman indicating an ugly fellow with wings and halo to crying jury and judge. Credit: Library of Congress.

The ugly club / Van Assen del. et sculp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ugly Duckling, winner in Corinthian mid-summer series, Marblehead. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

With a chill despondency, like one awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream, be yielded himself to the physician, and was led away

Injustice had made her sullen, and misery had made her ugly.

But the sound was ugly.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The sores can leave ugly scars. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ugly": an ugly customer ♦ as ugly as sin ♦ beautiful vs ugly ♦ become ugly ♦ both expensive and ugly ♦ cut up ugly ♦ grow ugly ♦ in an ugly mood ♦ make ugly ♦ plug ugly ♦ she is as ugly as sin ♦ surly ugly ♦ take an ugly turn ♦ turn ugly ♦ ugly as a dead monkey ♦ ugly as a scarecrow ♦ ugly as a toad ♦ ugly as sin ♦ ugly customer ♦ ugly duckling ♦ ugly mug ♦ ugly person ♦ ugly rumor ♦ ugly scene ♦ ugly situation ♦ ugly weather ♦ ugly woman ♦ ugly word. Additional references.

Beginning with "ugly": ugly-comic, ugly-is-beautiful, ugly-looking.

Ending with "ugly": handsome-ugly, pig-ugly, plug-ugly, too-ugly.

Containing "ugly": finish-'im-off-rip-'is-guts-out-fump-'im-in-the-belly-ya-big-ugly-bag-of-chisels-yer-tattoo'd-dick'ead.

Afrikaans

lelik (nasty). (various references)

Albanian

i shëmtuar (disfigured, frightful, haggish, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, oaf, uncomely, unhandsome, unsightly), i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, vicious, vile, wicked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, monstrous, outrageous, shocking, terrible), ‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏مكروه (abhorrent, adversity, detestable, discomfort, hateful, misfortune, obnoxious, odious), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏قبيح (disgusting, fiend, hideous, homely, monstrous, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unsightly), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous), ‏بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, hideous, homely, horrid, shapeless, ungainly, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свадлив (cantankerous, contentious, crabbed, crusty, cursed, quarrelsome, rowdy, shrewish, termagant, vixenish), грозен (eyesore, grotesque, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, morbid, unlovely, unsightly), гнусен (abhorrent, heinous, loathsome, obscene, vile), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), застрашителен (alarming, formidable, fulminatory, grave, ominous, sinister), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, vicious, wicked, wrong), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

陋 (humble, low, mean, plain, vulgar), 醜 , 難看 (unsightly), 丑恶, 丑 (1-3 a.m., 2nd Earthly Branch, clown, disgraceful, shameful), 娸 (to ridicule). (various references)

Czech

ošklivý (bad, dirty, foul, grisly, hideous, horrid, mean, nasty, unsightly). (various references)

Danish

grim (nasty). (various references)

Dutch

shit‐ (rotten), shit- (rotten), shit (rotten), rot (addled, bad, gang, rat, rotten, squad), lelijk, lelijk (nasty, rotten), lelýk (nasty, rotten). (various references)

Esperanto

turpa (nasty), malbela (nasty). (various references)

Faeroese

ljótur (nasty), andstyggiligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nasty, nauseous). (various references)

Farsi 

کریه (Detestable, Nasty, Offensive, Unsightly), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), بدگل (Homely). (various references)

Finnish

ruma (homely, plain, unattractive), huono (bad, poor, rotten, wicked, wretched). (various references)

French

vilain, laid. (various references)

Frisian

lilk (angry, cross, nasty). (various references)

German

häßlich (ill-favoured, nasty, uglily, unsightly), hässlich (hateful, hideous, mean, nastily, nasty, putrid, toady, uglily, unsightly). (various references)

Greek 

κακοκαμωμένοσ, άσχημοσ (black, homely, nasty, seamy, shapeless, unlovely, unshightly, unsightly), άσχημος (bad, unsightly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכוער (hideous, unsightly), מנוול (contemptible, corrupt, despicable, rotten), כפוש, כעור (abhorrent, disfigurement, eyesore, nastiness, repulsive, uglification, ugliness). (various references)

Hungarian

csúnya (dirty, disagreeable, hideous, inelegant, nasty, unlovely), ronda (bloody, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, frumpy, horrible, nasty, stinker), rút (disfigured, hideous). (various references)

Icelandic

ljótur (nasty). (various references)

Indonesian

memble (be sullen, lousy, no good, pout), jelek (bad, badly, base, disreputable, worse), butut (bad, worn-out), buruk (bad, corrupt, decayed, dissonant, foul, nasty, old, putrid, worn out). (various references)

Italian

minaccioso (black, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, threatening, thundery, wicked), laido (distasteful, loathsome, lousy, rancid, unpleasant), brutto (bad, dirty, foul, nasty, rotten, rough, ugliness, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

醜い. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まずい (awkward, bungling, unappetising, unpleasant, unskilful, untimely, unwise), かっこうのわるい (unattractive, unstylish), かっこうわるい (unattractive, unstylish), みぐるしい (unsightly), みにくい (hard to see). (various references)

Korean 

추악한. (various references)

Malay

jelek (nasty), buruk (addled, bad, nasty, rotten). (various references)

Manx

graney (bad-looking, dirty, dirty as trick, execrable, gruesome, hideous, ill-favoured, lousy, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, revolting, rotten, uncomely). (various references)

Norwegian

stygg (foul, homely, nasty), heslig (hideous, nasty). (various references)

Papiamen

mahoso (nasty), mahos (nasty), feu (nasty). (various references)

Pig Latin

yuglay.(various references)

Polish

brzydki (nasty). (various references)

Portuguese

feio (fearful, frightful, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, shapeless, uncomely, unhandsome, unlovely, unseemly, unsightly). (various references)

Romanian

urît (nasty), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), urâcios (disagreeable, disgusting, grumpy, hideous, repugnant, repulsive, unpleasant, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), slut (ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, monstrous, mooncalf), sluţit (crippled, deformed), pocit (disfigured, shapeless), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), hidos (grisly, hideous, hideously, monstrous, unsightly). (various references)

Russian 

безобразный (grotty, haggish). (various references)

Scottish

grànda , gràda, grànda (ill-favoured), gràda, duaichnidh (gloomy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ružan (homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, uncomely, unhandsome, unshapely, unsightly), plahovit (effusive, fiery, heady, hotspur, impetuous, tumultuary), opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, hazardous, parlous, perilous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious), opak (blackhearted, evil, malefic, malignant, nefarious, perishing, pernicious, severe, wicked), nemio (disagreeable, ungraceful, unlovely, unpleasant), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, vile). (various references)

Spanish

feo (bad-looking, dirty, foul, homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, nasty, tacky, ungraceful, unsightly). (various references)

Sranan

takru (nasty). (various references)

Swedish

ful (bad, foul, homely, miserable, nasty, ornery, poor, unattractive, unlovely, unseemly, unsightly), otäck (beastly, filthy, hidecous, hideous, horrid, nasty, unearthly, wicked, wickedness), anskrämlig (forbidding, unseemly). (various references)

Tagalog

pángit (nasty). (various references)

Turkish

tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), suratsız (gnarled, grim, grouchy, morose, po-faced, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, ungenial, vinegary), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, vile, villainous, yuck), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, wild), biçimsiz (amorphous, distorted, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, unformed, ungainly, unshapely), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Turkmen 

юumroя (abnormal, deformed), edrenз, betnysan, betgelюik, bedroя. (various references)

Ukrainian

сварливий (angular, cantankerous, contentious, currish, doggish, frumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, peevish, pugnacious, quarreling, quarrelling, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant), некрасива людина, неприємний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), загрозливий (dangerous, denunciative, denunciatory, forbidding, fulminating, grave, menacing, minatory, nasty, ominous, presageful, threatening, thundery), потворний (frightful, malformed, miscreated, monstrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấu xí xấu, xấu xa (cankerous, ignominious, nameless, unholy, vicious), xấu (baleful, deplorable, evil, ill-favoured, ill-looking, punk, shabby, sorry, unbeautiful, unpleasant, wicked, wrong), khó chịu; đáng sợ. (various references)

Welsh

salw (mean, poor, vile), hyll (hideous), hagr, graen (fear, gloss, grain, grief, grievous, lustre, sad), diolwg, cethin (dark, fierce), annillyn (clumsy, inelegant, unseemly), anhardd (unhandsome, unseemly). (various references)

turpis. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ugly": plugugly, smugly, snugly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ugly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agly, cuggly, Egley, Eglwys, fugly, gly, gulpy, gurly, Hugly, iggly, igly, Mulguy, ogley, Ubley, ucli, udly, Ueli, ufl, ugaly, ugey, uggly, ugl, ugla, ugle, uglify, Ugolin, ugry, ul, ulg, ulgly, ulu, ulv, uly, Ulya, Uml, ungly, Uogl, uply, urgly, urly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gul, guy, lug.

+1 letter: bulgy, gluey, gulfy, gully, gulpy.

+2 letters: eulogy, gluily, glumly, glumpy, guilty, gulley, hugely, jungly, kludgy, loungy, lungyi, plaguy, sludgy, smugly, snugly, uglify, uglily.

+3 letters: fugally, fuggily, gaudily, gauntly, gauzily, goutily, gruffly, grumbly, guayule, gulleys, gunplay, gushily, gustily, gutsily, guyline, gyplure, ladybug, liturgy, lungyis, muggily, nylghau, plaguey, pudgily, roughly, sloughy, splurgy, teughly, toughly, ufology, ungodly, urology, vaguely.