What is the meaning of ugly?

Displeasing to the senses.
- usage: "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace.
- usage: "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
- synonyms: surly
Morally reprehensible.
- usage: "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
- synonyms: despicable, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
Provoking horror.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible

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