I don’t about “ugly”, exactly, but “panties” is the worst of all possible words. Ick.
Rivaled only by “manties.”
Turd and fart. Much prefer almost any other term, eg: dookie, grogan, poot, trouser trombone, etc.
This word is especially bad because anyone with halitosis who says this word will project his bad breath onto you.
I’ve always been squicked out by the word “phlegm”, which is why the surname of “Fleming” evokes a similar reaction.
Pustule
Smegma
Just be glad you’re not a rural juror.
It isn’t one syllable, but I think the ugliest word in the English language is metastasize.
I don’t like the word facetious. Someone I no longer like used that word too often, so now it is quite ugly and grating toward me.
I completely agree. I work on 8th Ave., and have to spell it out for certain documents. It never seems correct after I’ve typed it. It’s the “ghth” sequence.
butt
Oh, but it has all the vowels once, and in order!
facetiously
abstemiously
Maybe if you just look at its beauty but don’t say it out loud.
hawks and spits
PHLEGM
I’m so ladylike
Book - sorry, I know we all like books here but the word sounds like something a caveman would say when he gets a piece of old meat stuck in his throat. Say it a few times out loud and see what I mean.
How can I hate something when there are people like Gigi in the world, pointing out the beauty in things?
Oy vey iz mir! I concede that, that is a beautiful thing to see…but as you say, I still will not say it aloud!
“Salve”. Looks stupid. Sounds stupid.
Yogh.
“Ache” sounds germanic? Sure, if you pronounce it the way a german would, but in english? That doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
But then again, my first language is a germanic one, so I guess we have slightly different points of reference here…
Your second-place is my first-place winner. The word just seems … wrong. It’s okay on paper or screen, but when said aloud, the sounds just don’t have the right connotation, I guess. I don’t know how to explain its wrongness to me.
Or it could be because of that old SNL sketch with Phil Hartman laying down the audio track for the books on tape version of Madonna’s “Sex” book. The way he said “vagina” is seared into my auditory memory.
Soooo not sexy.