Idiom
beat with the ugly stick
Meaning
Used to describe someone who is particularly ugly or unattractive.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That old car looks like it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
“The new building is so poorly designed that people say it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
“While the designer clearly prioritized function over form, the resulting prototype looks as though it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
Examples
simple
“That old car looks like it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
contextual
“The new building is so poorly designed that people say it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
complex
“While the designer clearly prioritized function over form, the resulting prototype looks as though it was beaten with the ugly stick.”
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