못생기다

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to be ugly, unattractive

Usage notes
The verb is defective due to the etymological semantics and primarily occurs in the morphological past tense (literally "to have emerged poorly" > "to be handsome"), e.g.,.

There is much dispute among linguists of Korean over whether it and similar stems should be categorized as verbs or adjectives. The currently supports the argument that it is a verb as the morphological past tense has a stative sense pertaining to the present, which is true of certain verbs (e.g.  > ) but not generally of adjectives (e.g.  > ).