How do movies ask for “ugly” actors?

Question

Or things seen as “negative” otherwise, like specific disabilities (eg. achondroplasia)

I see a lot of ways it could sound offensive. How do they ask for them to audition? Surely they don’t put it bluntly like “need blonde, ugly man.”

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I was wondering this yesterday as i watched The Office, in one scene Meredith says something like “8n my experience guys are usually more into the back of you than the front”. Like, dude thats gotta hurt the self esteem