uglisome

English

Etymology

From ugly +‎ -some.

Adjective

uglisome (comparative more uglisome, superlative most uglisome)

1. Characterised or marked by ugliness
   • 2005, Deeanne Gist, A Bride Most Begrudging:

     The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out.

   • 2011, Deeanne Gist, The Trouble with Brides:

     The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out.

   • 2013, Chisom Ohuaka, First Gong Vol.3:

     And treated our fathers like scum, / Those uglisome messiahs that Bade us come, [...]

   • 2016, E. R. Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses:

     Devilish heads, five cubits in bigness from brow to chin, were carven in high relief along the five other walls: thirteen heads in all, very deformed and uglisome, laying out their tongues; and on the end of each tongue was stood a lamp brightly burning, and the eyes of the great faces were looking-glasses nicely cut up with facets to throw back the rays of the lamps, so that the whole banquet-room was lit with a brilliance of lamplight.

Anagrams

• elogiums, eulogism