I doubt my involvement would have been encouraged, or even allowed, if there were really all these ugly secrets lying around.

Did the Southern plantation owners know about the ugly secret of opium-for-cotton goods?

In frustration, he spread his arms wide like a man baring an ugly secret.

They're evil men, hiding their ugly secret under a cloak of respectability.

Let me tell you the ugly secret about command.

The patches of greenish light held ugly secrets back in the shadows.

Narayan smiled as though privy to a huge and ugly secret.

He had discovered the ugly secret of the Light!

The outing of her ugly secret had only seemed to make things more awkward.

This was one of the ugly secrets of the war that people seldom talk about.