Like Bill Simon, Ranieri thought mortgages an ugly stepchild of the bond market.

Later, after Denver beat the Falcons like an ugly red-headed stepchild, another player was charged with laundering money for a drug dealer.

Long considered the ugly stepchild, it is now seen as a street where restaurants can thrive.

And no one associated with the staging of "Hope" is treating it as an ugly stepchild.

"We had become the ugly stepchild of the new action-sports scene," Mr. Douglas said.

Sure, the Portege lines were great for thinness, but Toshiba has always been the ugly stepchild of laptop design.

They were the ugly stepchild of New York's skyscrapers, seemingly destined to be forever denied a place in the life and lore of the city.

The filth trade is the ugly stepchild of the new mania to replace regulation with schemes that pose as "market" solutions.

Fusion has long been an ugly stepchild in jazz circles; it appears in most official histories as the byproduct of compromise and contamination.

Jung used to talk about jazz being the ugly stepchild, and at one time our music was considered the music of the devil.