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1) (unpleasant to look at: She is rather an ugly young woman.) grd2) (unpleasant, nasty or dangerous: ugly black clouds; The crowd was in an ugly mood.) neprijeten•- ugliness* * *I [ʌgli]adjectivegrd, nelep; odvraten, ostuden, ogaben; gnusen; umazan; neprijeten; American colloquially prepirljiv, hudoben, zlohoten; nevaren, preteč (oblak); kritičenan ugly customer — zoprn, neprijeten, nevaren človekan ugly job — težavna, zoprna, neprijetna zadeva (delo)an ugly wound — grda, nevarna ranato look ugly — biti grde, neprijetne zunanjosti (oseba); slabo, neugodno se obrniti (položaj)things have an ugly look — stvari se grdo, neprijetno obračajoII [ʌgli]noungrda oseba; grda žival; history senčnik, pajčolan na ženskih klobukih (v sredini 19. stoletja)
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