Grace vs Ugly - What's the difference?
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(not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
(not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
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(not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
(not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
(countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
(finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
(card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
* (rfdate) (Knolles)
To supply with heavenly grace.
(music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
* Spenser
* (William Shakespeare)
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.
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, title= Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
(slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
* 2009 : (Lady Gaga) and (RedOne), "(Bad Romance)":
(slang) An ugly person or thing.
(UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
As a proper noun grace
is (label) , equivalent to english (grace).As an adjective ugly is
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.As a noun ugly is
(slang|uncountable) ugliness.grace
English
(wikipedia grace)Noun
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace : the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Verb
(grac)- He graced the room with his presence.
- He graced the room by simply being there.
- His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
- Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
- We are graced with wreaths of victory.
- He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.
- (Bishop Hall)
Anagrams
* ----ugly
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- the ugly view of his deformed crimes
- O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly , gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* (displeasing to the eye) hideous, homely, repulsive, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly * (displeasing to the ear or some other sense) displeasing, repulsive, unattractive * (sense, offensive to one's sensibilities or morality) corrupt, immoral, vile * See alsoAntonyms
* (displeasing to the eye) attractive, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, pretty, sightly * (displeasing to the ear or some other sense) attractive, pleasing * (sense, offensive to one's sensibilities or morality) moralDerived terms
* uggo * ugly duckling * uglification * uglifyNoun
- I want your ugly / I want your disease.
- (Charles Kingsley)
