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

He was almost uglily healthy, with the camp life.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

He was ugly, that was all; nothing more nor less; in short, he was uglily ugly.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de

But always his eyes had this strange, half-diabolic, half-tortured pale gleam, like a goat's, and his mouth was shut almost uglily, his cheeks stern.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)