And people complaining about their spouses always looked and sounded so ugly.

Constructions such as "the two sides were today to consider", as we have been known to say, sound ugly and artificial.

The name sounded ugly even to his own ears.

Jargon words usually sound ugly and unintelligible to outsiders.

It sounds very ugly coming from a girl your age.

It should have sounded ugly, but it didn't, if that makes any sense.

It sounded ugly to me, and I could only imagine what it was doing to him.

And if the music sounds ugly because of amplification, so what?

They both sensed it, and this awareness made his words sound that much more ugly.

"If you call it a wall, it just sounds ugly."