Adjective

(er)

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

* Spenser

the ugly view of his deformed crimes

* (William Shakespeare)

O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.

*, chapter=12

, title= 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.}}

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the course of the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, tho' it was not as yet in above half its length.}}

* , Lady Susan , ch. 22:

This is insufferable ! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,and must relieve myself by writing to you. . . . Guess my astonishment, and vexation.

* 1894 , , The Coxon Fund , ch. 4:

Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person.

* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 13:

Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.

* 2011 June 7, " Chaos in Syria," Time :

The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.