Usually means: Insensitive to foreign cultures, arrogant.
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  1. ugly american: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Ugly American, Ugly American: Merriam-Webster
  3. ugly American: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Ugly American: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ugly American, ugly American: Wiktionary
  6. the Ugly American: Dictionary.com
  7. The Ugly American (album), The Ugly American (film), The Ugly American, Ugly American (epithet), Ugly American (pejorative), Ugly American: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. ugly american: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ugly American)

noun:  (idiomatic) An American government representative, tourist, or businessperson who, in dealing with people of other nations, is haughty, rude, meddlesome, chauvinistic, or jingoistic.
noun:  Alternative form of ugly American [(idiomatic) An American government representative, tourist, or businessperson who, in dealing with people of other nations, is haughty, rude, meddlesome, chauvinistic, or jingoistic.]

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