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-adj)

(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.

(Shakespeare)

Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.

Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' , page 16,

Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”

* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition, page 175,

We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.

* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , page 540,

In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.