uglisome

comparative more uglisome · superlative most uglisome

1. Characterised or marked by ugliness

   And treated our fathers like scum, / Those uglisome messiahs that Bade us come, [...]

   2013, Chisom Ohuaka, First Gong Vol.3

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   The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out.

   2005, Deeanne Gist, A Bride Most Begrudging

   The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out.

   2011, Deeanne Gist, The Trouble with Brides

   Devilish heads, five cubits in bigness from brow to chin, were carven in high relief along the five other walls: thirteen heads in all, very deformed and uglisome, laying out their tongues; and on the end of each tongue was stood a lamp brightly burning, and the eyes of the great faces were looking-glasses nicely cut up with facets to throw back the rays of the lamps, so that the whole banquet-room was lit with a brilliance of lamplight.

   2016, E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses