Hostile, as a crowd

The answer

UGLY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UGLY answer page.

Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for UGLY

Every other clue in this collection answered by UGLY, most used first.

• Hideous - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Unsightly - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• "The ___ Duckling" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Hard on the eyes - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• Unattractive - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Like an eyesore - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Hard to look at - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Hard to watch - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Ill-favored. - used 9 times, most recently in 1994
• Like a storied duckling - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• "The __ Duckling" (fairy tale) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Far from fair - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• In pre-swan mode - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Like eyesores - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Grotesque - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Hardly handsome - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Like Andersen's duckling - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Not pretty - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Repulsive - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Far from fetching - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Hostile - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Like a fabled duckling - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Like Cinderella's stepsisters - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "The ___ American" - used 6 times, most recently in 2004

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Crowd sound - ROAR, used 92 times
• Crowd noise - ROAR, used 37 times
• Hostile to - ANTI, used 27 times
• In a crowd of - AMID, used 20 times
• Pick out of a crowd - SPOT, used 19 times
• "___ company, three's a crowd" - TWOS, used 14 times

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