Ugly vs Villain - What's the difference?
ugly | villain |
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
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* (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.
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(slang) An ugly person or thing.
(UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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As nouns the difference between ugly and villain
is that ugly is ugliness while villain is a vile, wicked person.As an adjective ugly
is displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.As a verb villain is
to debase; to degrade.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)
villain
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(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.