See Also: UNDESIRABILITY

1. Disgusting, like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of flies —Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. (Furniture) emanating bad taste like a cold draft —Milan Kundera
3. Lurid as a porcelain souvenier —Derek Walcott
4. (It sounded) obscene, like a rarely glimpsed body part —Lorrie Moore
5. Plain as cement sidewalks. Plain as bread crust —Jean Thompson
6. Ugly and fat as a maggot —Miles Gibson
7. Ugly and indesctructible as the aluminum beer can —Stephen Minot

   See Also: PERMANENCE

8. Ugly as a hairless monkey —Margaret Mitchell
9. Ugly as a hatful of assholes —Geoffrey Wolff
10. Ugly as a mud fence —American colloquialism, attributed to Southeast

    Southerners often elaborated on this as follows: “Ugly as a mud fence daubed with tadpoles.”

11. (He was like most new babies as) ugly as an artichoke —Anne Sexton
12. Ugly as sin —Maria Edgeworth
13. Ugly … like a great black spider —Rosamund Pilcher
14. Unappealing as a meringue with hardly any crust —Anon
15. As erotically stimulating as a mouthful of sardines —Ira Wood