medial vs ugly

medial

adj
  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

ugly

adj
  • Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. 

  • Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. 

  • Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome. 

  • Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss. 

  • Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. 

noun
  • An ugly person or thing. 

  • Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet. 

  • Ugliness. 

verb
  • To make ugly (sometimes with up). 

How often have the words medial and ugly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )