Like an eyesore

The answer

UGLY

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

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• UNAESTHETIC (1 uses in xd)

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
• Hostile, as a crowd - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Unattractive - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
• Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
• Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
• Like fine wine - AGED, used 99 times
• Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
• Move like molasses - OOZE, used 83 times

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