uglilyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈʌɡləli/

副詞

uglily (comparative more uglily, superlative most uglily)

1. In an ugly manner.
   • 1921, James Branch Cabell, “The Crown of Wisdom”, in Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances, Robert M[edill] McBride & Co., part one (The Book of Credit), page 56:

     “One thing at least is certain,” remarked King Helmas, frowning uglily, “and it is that among the Peohtes all persons who dispute our prophecies are burned at the stake.”

   • 1925 May 14, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, →OCLC:

     Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood,—by sucking a gaspipe?

使用する際の注意点

Because of the awkward pronunciation, this word is seldom used in formal speech; it is more usual to say (and write) in an ugly manner or in an ugly way.

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