Grim vs. Ugly — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Grim and Ugly
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Grim
Discouraging or depressing
The business news has been grim lately.
Ugly
Displeasing to the eye; unsightly.
Grim
Dismal; gloomy
A grim, rainy day.
Ugly
Repulsive or offensive; objectionable
An ugly remark.
Grim
Stern or forbidding
The judge was grim when handing out the sentence.
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Ugly
Chiefly Southern US Rude
Don't be ugly with me.
Grim
Repellent or horrifying
The grim task of searching for bodies in the rubble.
Ugly
New England Unmanageable. Used of animals, especially cows or horses.
Grim
Unrelenting or uncompromising
Grim determination.
Ugly
Morally reprehensible; bad.
Grim
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
Ugly
Threatening or ominous
Ugly black clouds.
Grim
Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
Ugly
Likely to cause embarrassment or trouble
"Public opinion in both nations could take an ugly turn" (George R. Packard).
Grim
Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
Ugly
Marked by or inclined to anger or bad feelings; disagreeable
An ugly temper.
An ugly scene.
Grim
Disgusting; gross.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
– Mate, that is grim!
– Mate, that is grim!
Ugly
One that is ugly.
Grim
(obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
Ugly
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Grim
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Ugly
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Grim
A promiscuous woman.
Ugly
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
He played an ugly trick on us.
Grim
(obsolete) Anger, wrath.
Ugly
(Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
An ugly temper; to feel ugly
Grim
(obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
Ugly
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
An ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound
With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.
Grim
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking.
The ridges of grim war.
Ugly
Ugliness.
Grim
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
Grim determination
Grim necessity
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
Relentless persecution
The stern demands of parenthood
Ugly
(slang) An ugly person or thing.
Grim
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
Ghastly wounds
The grim aftermath of the bombing
The grim task of burying the victims
A grisly murder
Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
Macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
Macabre tortures conceived by madmen
Ugly
Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
Grim
Harshly ironic or sinister;
Black humor
A grim joke
Grim laughter
Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Ugly
A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Grim
Causing dejection;
A blue day
The dark days of the war
A week of rainy depressing weather
A disconsolate winter landscape
The first dismal dispiriting days of November
A dark gloomy day
Grim rainy weather
Ugly
To make ugly (sometimes with up).
Grim
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;
A dour, self-sacrificing life
A forbidding scowl
A grim man loving duty more than humanity
Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw
Ugly
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
Like the toad, ugly and venomous.
O, I have passed a miserable night,So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
Grim
Characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom;
Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
Gloomy predictions
A gloomy silence
Took a grim view of the economy
The darkening mood
Ugly
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
Ugly
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
Ugly
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
Ugly
To make ugly.
Ugly
Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting;
An ugly face
Ugly furniture
War is ugly
Ugly
Deficient in beauty;
Ugly gray slums
Ugly
Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
A surly waiter
An ugly frame of mind
Ugly
Morally reprehensible;
Would do something as despicable as murder
Ugly crimes
The vile development of slavery appalled them
Ugly
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
A baleful look
Forbidding thunderclouds
His tone became menacing
Ominous rumblings of discontent
Sinister storm clouds
A sinister smile
His threatening behavior
Ugly black clouds
The situation became ugly
Ugly
Provoking horror;
An atrocious automobile accident
A frightful crime of decapitation
An alarming, even horrifying, picture
War is beyond all words horrible
An ugly wound
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