Crippled and Ugly

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Crippled adjective - Disabled in the feet or legs.

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Ugly and crippled are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ugly" instead an adjective "Crippled".

Nearby Words: cripple, crippling

Ugly adjective - Unpleasant to look at.

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Crippled and ugly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crippled" instead an adjective "Ugly".

Nearby Word: ugliness

All of the Other Reindeer: Hephaestus was either born crippled and abandoned at birth, or born ugly and crippled when his father threw him off of Olympus.

Source: Older Than Feudalism
The Golden Branch subverts this trope and then plays it straight - the protagonists are a prince and a princess who are both very ugly and crippled, but are shown as being good-hearted.

Source: Beauty Equals Goodness
She sees herself as a crippled woman and changed her name to Hulga because it sounds so very ugly.

Source: Farmer's Daughter

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