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 know for “Deliverance” they searched the local elementary school for a kid to play the inbred banjo player. They were searching for people who had a particular “local” look…which was their delicate way of saying “inbred”.