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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plug-ugly
Noun
  • The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
  • How many of you recall the TV image on Jan. 6, 2021, of Officer Daniel Hodges, squashed in a revolving door at the U.S. Capitol, screaming for help as MAGA thugs beat on his head?
    Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The actor was also fired from his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the villain Kang the Conqueror, who was originally intended to feature in the next two Avengers films.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • His music has served as a vehicle for haunting, bombastic fantasies, often with himself as the villain.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Armed with his signature mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters and corrupt CEOs while trying to save his relationship with his son.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
  • His involvement with Max (Laura Haddock) thrusts him on an international journey that puts him at odds with both Russian gangsters and his own colleagues in intelligence.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Every day Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Putting him in a holding cell with a violent criminal is worse.
    Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Who didn't want to be like those kids going on adventures involving gangsters, pirate ships and best friends?
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Like a ‘pirate ship’ Goss has done four separate stints as a guardian in London, in an empty police station, a nursing home for the elderly, a student residence hall and, finally, a town hall.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Unsurprisingly, the government pointed to leftists as the assassins.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trump had nearly been killed by an assassin’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, an act that hit close to home for Kennedy, whose father was assassinated on the Presidential campaign trail.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • This location can be found north of Tachov in the forests beside a bandit camp.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The bandit wheeled and snarled at Herod, exposing his rotting front teeth.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Plug-ugly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plug-ugly. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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