The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HIDEOUS
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More clues leading to the result HIDEOUS
- Draw a veil over old America, very unpleasant
- Rough skin on old American is ugly
- Frightful-looking refuges with no end of want
- Ghastly house I'd redesigned
- Awful shelters—no time for them
- Horrible defeat ultimately avoided by retreats
- Terrible-looking skin American covers over
- Ghastly appeal for sanctuary has nothing in it
- Hoorid dens – time to escape
- Ugly hairdo, when uneven? Redo cut so just even
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The straight part
We know that "Ugly" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ugly = hideous.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does HIDEOUS mean?
HIDEOUS adjective- Extremely or shockingly ugly.
- Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound
- Hateful; shocking.
- Morally offensive; shocking; detestable.