Bad and Homely

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Homely and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Homely" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Homely adjective - Unpleasant to look at.

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Bad and homely are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Homely".

Nearby Words: home, homey, homeliness

There isn't even any of the usual Hollywood Homely attempts to disguise this: she doesn't wear glasses, have braces, wear hideous clothes, have bad hair, or prosthetic makeup.

Source: Hollywood Homely
Often, the actual drawing won't be near as bad as the reactions they garner (this is the entertainment industry, after all), making this similar to Hollywood Homely in a sense.

Source: Terrible Artist
All Girls Want Bad Boys: After marrying the homely smith-god Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war, behind his back.

Source: Myth / Classical Mythology

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