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The Kansas Reflector’s opinion editor deemed it “ugly as sin” in a column under a headline calling it “slapdash and dull.”

New Yorker: “During the Second World War, Lee, a student at Huntingdon College, in Montgomery, shunned the standard cardigan-and-pearls attire of the all-female institution in favor of a bomber jacket she’d been given by her brother, an Army Air Corps cadet. Her language was ‘salty,’ and she sometimes smoked a pipe, and, while her face seems to have been pleasantly approachable, she described herself as ‘ugly as sin.’

She said she met Vincent Van Gogh when he would buy paint from her uncle in Arles in 1888, calling him "ugly as sin" and "an awful character".

I nod, and Ma says, “Then I’m glad Bro told you that. But the truth is, Jax, in this line of work, sometimes you don’t have time to make a plan. Sometimes you just have to use whatever you’ve got to do whatever you can. Now, I’m not going to stand here and tell you I was happy to see that dinosaur coming straight at me. Ugly as sin it was, with more teeth than I could count.”

His cousin Denis said to him brutally he was “ugly as sin, but you have a mind”.