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ugly cry

ugly cry verb: to weep to the extent that one's face contorts.

Verb

ugly cry (third-person singular simple present ugly cries, present participle ugly crying, simple past and past participle ugly cried)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To weep to the extent that one's face contorts.
    • […] and then she grabbed onto his shirt and cried, he held her and tried to calm her, but knew that she just needed to ugly cry, for a while.2019, M. L. Aiken, Lucky Beginnings: Blue Moon Valley: The story of Tom and Maggie
    • And if I'm in line at the grocery store, I don't want to ugly cry. So in situations like that, I avoid my friends. I will try to breeze past them in the frozen food aisle.2019, Melissa Maimone, The Radiant Midnight, page 60

Forms of ugly cry

third-person singular presentugly cries
present participleugly crying
past participleugly cried
pastugly cried

Words formed from ugly cry

  • ugly crier

Questions about ugly cry

What does ugly cry mean?
Ugly cry means to weep to the extent that one's face contorts.
What part of speech is ugly cry?
Ugly cry is a verb.
What is the past tense of ugly cry?
The past tense of ugly cry is ugly cried.

Words near ugly cry in the dictionary

  1. Ugly Americans
  2. ugly as bull-beef
  3. ugly as sin
  4. ugly cried
  5. ugly cries
  6. ugly cry
  7. ugly crying
  8. ugly customer
  9. ugly customers
  10. ugly duckling
  11. ugly ducklings

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