ugly as sin
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It’s a stylistic choice to give the film the essence of a faded vintage photograph, but it’s also ugly as sin.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
I used to like Thunderbird but it's ugly as sin.
From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2018
The Lasko 6462 Full Circle Ceramic Heater is well-reviewed and features a nifty 360-degree oscillating feature, but this floor-standing model’s space-age ashtray design is ugly as sin.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2018
And then there was this broadside — perhaps the closest that one Oval Office aspirant has come in modern times to accusing another of being ugly as sin.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2016
In life, Ser Myles Toyne had been ugly as sin.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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