The Clue
Like Andersen's duckling (4 letter answer)
The Answer
UGLY
Tags
Notes
The answer UGLY is common and appears about once every 250 puzzles.
Related Clues
"The ___ American"
"The ___ Duckling"
Frightful
Grotesque
Hideous
Hostile
Nasty
Offensive
Quarrelsome
Repulsive
Surly
Unfair?
Unsightly
Adjective for an eyesore
Beyond homely
Hard on the eyes
Hard to watch
Ill-favored
Kind of duckling
Like a gargoyle
Like Medusa
Word for a duckling
Like a certain duckling
Like a fabled duckling
Like a fictional duckling
In pre-swan mode
"This is going to get ___"
Like the fairy-tale duckling
Like many Halloween masks
Likely to break out into fighting
Definition
UGLY as an adjective:
1. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
2. (surly, ugly) = inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
3. (despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched) = morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
4. (atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly) = provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"