What's the difference between handsome and ugly?

Handsome


Definition:

  • (superl.) Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
  • (superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
  • (superl.) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.
  • (superl.) Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
  • (superl.) Ample; moderately large.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (2) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
  • (3) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (4) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
  • (5) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
  • (6) I thought Mark was perfect: smart, romantic (he wrote me love notes in year 9 French) and quite handsome.
  • (7) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
  • (8) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
  • (9) Moyes's plan for Carrick and Marouane Fellaini to "tag-team" West Ham's striker worked handsomely and Carroll's only moment of threat came after 15 minutes, when he headed straight at David de Gea.
  • (10) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.
  • (11) And he adds: “Women usually vote for the more handsome man.” Asked how German chancellor Angela Merkel had come to power in a country where women vote, he changed the topic to sports teams coached by men.
  • (12) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
  • (13) Some art historians thought Leighton was gay – his handsome friend, the Italian painter Giovanni Costa, was the only guest recorded as staying overnight – while others believed he never had a lover of either sex.
  • (14) A handsome pair of strippedback brick apartment buildings will frame a forthcoming bridge across the river, leading to a woodland park beyond.
  • (15) To wit: the near offence taken when speculation first surfaced that Stewart was dating Cargile – what an absurd decision given that she used to go out with the handsome, perfectly stubbled Robert Pattinson, right?
  • (16) One Saturday afternoon in September 1954, a handsome, faintly smiling god looked up from the London mud.
  • (17) SNL finally paid off handsomely, but in a delayed-reaction sort of way."
  • (18) While some of its outreach involved active image management, some parts were pragmatic, such as its offer of handsome salaries for engineers able to maintain the oil fields on which Isis relies for black-market income.
  • (19) The handsome finish went high past the left hand of Víctor Valdés.
  • (20) Among MME, youthfulness, handsomeness, and sexiness are important, promoting versatility in place of specificity when mentioning sexual acts.

Ugly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
  • (superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
  • (superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
  • (n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
  • (v. t.) To make ugly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
  • (2) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (3) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
  • (4) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
  • (5) This would probably end in an ugly fight on the floor of the convention where delegates (almost of whom are selected in a process separate from the actual primary ) are free to vote on the rules however they want.
  • (6) To suggest that people who are concerned about the use of a power of this sort against journalists are condoning terrorism, which seems to be the implication of that remark, is an extremely ugly and unhelpful sentiment.
  • (7) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (8) With panic-inducing stories of deaths, rising infection rates and government failure to advertise the annual vaccination campaign, flu has once again reared its ugly head in our newspapers and across TV screens.
  • (9) He cites the shockingly ugly examples of "predict" and "extraneous".
  • (10) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
  • (11) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Steve Huffman, a Reddit founder and former CEO, will return to the top job.
  • (12) To be talking of relocating people off their traditional country does indeed take us back 50 years in a very ugly way.” Barnett has said there is no other option but closure of between 100 and 150 communities which it has described as “unviable”, and cited “high rates of suicide, poor education, poor health [and] no jobs”.
  • (13) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
  • (14) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
  • (15) We lived on the 10th floor of one of Moscow's post-communist-era apartment blocks, an ugly, orange-brick tower in the Moscow suburb of Voikovskaya.
  • (16) Sixty-one headteachers wrote to the papers in support a couple of days later, but they were swept away by a campaign notable for the ugliness it permitted in some of its readers.
  • (17) After a £559m loss in the first half, he told the Guardian last week that the annual numbers would be "ugly" .
  • (18) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
  • (19) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
  • (20) In many ways, I wasn't shocked with the physical threats and ugly language.