Example Sentences

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Its ensuing kickoff drifted out of bounds uglily, with Clemson soon proving what a bad idea it tends to be to give it field position.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2019

Sure, the dictionary says we can use lame adverbs like uglily, friendlily, surlily, and jollily, but nobody says we have to.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The train had tunnelled all the earth, blindly, and uglily.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

"Then I want to tell you that he has no right to interfere with me," went on Napoleon Martell, uglily.

From The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Stratemeyer, Edward

"Say, this isn't any of your fight," put in Slugger Brown, uglily.

From The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Stratemeyer, Edward