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ugly behavior - translation to dutch
FAIRY TALE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Ugly Duckling; The ugly duckling; Ugly duckling; Ugly duck
![A pair of young [[swan]]s (or cygnets)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mute Swan Cygnets detail.jpg?width=200 "A pair of young [[swan]]s (or cygnets)")
ugly behavior
verfoeilijk gedrag (bedenkelijk gedrag, onbeschoft gedrag, laakbaar gedrag)
ugly duckling
lelijke eend
The Ugly Duckling
het Lelijke Eendje (een sprookje van Andersen)
Definition
ugly duckling
¦ noun a person who turns out to be beautiful or talented against all expectations.
Origin
from the title of one of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, in which the 'ugly duckling' (actually a cygnet) becomes a swan.
Wikipedia
The Ugly Duckling
"The Ugly Duckling" (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was first published on 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. First Collection, with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen, Denmark to great critical acclaim. The tale has been adapted to various media including opera, musical, and animated film. The tale is an original story by Andersen.
Examples of use of ugly behavior
1. It was particularly ugly behavior on the part of the Jewish rioters that could have and should have been prevented." The first failing was in the police‘s decision to allow the demonstration, even though it was unauthorized.
2. He is also angry about all the media attention for distraught settlers being carried out of their communities by Israeli troops. In the last four years we were subject to their ugly behavior.
3. He asked whether violence had become "a culture implanted in our bodies and our flesh," adding that it "has taken away the language of brotherhood and replaced it with arms." "Shouldn‘t we be ashamed of this ugly behavior, which scandalizes us before our people and before the world?" he wrote from Gaza.
4. Mote is tired of living that contradiction, which is why he joined more than 100 other college presidents in signing a call for action, the Amethyst Initiative, a collective statement that the 21–year–old drinking age is not working and has created a culture of binge drinking on campuses nationwide. (Amethyst is from the ancient Greek for "not intoxicated.") Too many colleges have become grim enclaves of student binge drinking that leads to all manner of degrading and ugly behavior.