(chiefly, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) Ugly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
Still, it's a cosy country, / unracked by riots or strikes / and backward at drug-taking: / I've heard of a dozen lands / where life sounds far more ugsome, / fitter goals for your disgust.
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