ugly ducklingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌʌɡ.li ˈdʌk.lɪŋ/us/ˌʌɡ.li ˈdʌk.lɪŋ/someone or something that is ugly and not successful when young or new but will later become beautiful or successful
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Not attractive to look at
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- back end
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- blowsy
- florid
- ghoulish
- hideously
- horsey
- icky
- inelegant
- look a fright idiom
- look like the back end of a bus idiom
- minger
- putrid
- tasteless
- twee
- ugly
- unappealing
- unappetizing
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