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Adjective
ugly as sin (not comparable)
- (simile, derogatory) Extremely ugly.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:It was easy enough to see that the child was a changeling, for it wasn't like other children at all it screamed and cried, as if a knife stuck in it, and it wheezed and hit about with its arms like a huldre-cat, and was as ugly as sin.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 26:'She is a personality,' said M. Bouc. 'Ugly as sin, but she makes herself felt.'.
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extremely ugly
- Czech: ošklivý jako noc
- Dutch: lelijk als de nacht
- Finnish: ruma kuin mikä, ruma kuin rullatuoli (colloquial)
- French: laid comme un pou (fr), laid comme les sept péchés capitaux (fr)
- German: hässlich wie die Nacht
- Greek: κακάσχημος (el) (kakáschimos)
- Hungarian: csúnya, mint a bűn
- Italian: brutto come la fame (literally “ugly as hunger”), brutto come la morte (literally “ugly as death”), fare schifo al cazzo (literally “to be disgusting as fuck”) (extremely vulgar)
- Norwegian: stygg som juling (no)
- Polish: brzydki jak noc listopadowa (pl), brzydki jak noc (pl)
- Portuguese: mais feio que bater em mãe
- Romanian: urât ca păcatul
- Russian: стра́шный, как сме́ртный грех (strášnyj, kak smértnyj grex)
- Spanish: más feo que un pecado, más feo que Picio, más feo que Carracuca
- Swedish: ful som stryk (sv)
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