The Clue
"The ___ 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"
Frightful
Grotesque
Hideous
Hostile
Nasty
Quarrelsome
Repulsive
Surly
Unappealing
Unfair?
Unsightly
Adjective for an eyesore
Beyond homely
Far from fair
Hard on the eyes
Hard to watch
Kind of duckling
Like a gargoyle
Like Medusa
Like the vulture
Word for a duckling
Like Andersen's 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"