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- Dictionaryugliness/ˈʌɡlɪnɪs/
noun
- 1. the quality of being unpleasant or repulsive in appearance: "Helena gives a soliloquy comparing her ugliness to Hermia's beauty"
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1. : the quality or state of being ugly. 2. : something that is ugly. Examples of ugliness in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web The ugliness of Jew hatred and antisemitism was still apparent in Hungary more than a decade following the war.
the quality of being unpleasant to look at, or not attractive: the ugliness of the buildings. He makes comedy out of his ugliness. More examples. Fewer examples. The captain's wife, a woman of the most extreme ugliness, smiled toothlessly at me.
Ugliness is the quality or state of being unattractive. Despite a baby bird's ugliness, it might grow up to be quite beautiful. You can talk about an unappealing appearance — that's one kind of ugliness.
1. Displeasing to the eye; unsightly. 2. a. Repulsive or offensive; objectionable: an ugly remark. b. Chiefly Southern US Rude: Don't be ugly with me. c. New England Unmanageable. Used of animals, especially cows or horses. 3. Morally reprehensible; bad. 4. Threatening or ominous: ugly black clouds. 5. a.
the fact of being unpleasant or dangerous, especially involving threats or violence. The central characters face the ugliness and brutality of what human beings are capable of doing to one another. Check pronunciation: ugliness. Definition of ugliness noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
noun. The condition of being ugly. Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate. Wiktionary. An unsightly or frightful object. Wiktionary. Synonyms: unsightliness. hideousness. wickedness. vileness. nefariousness.
Jun 2, 2024 · An unsightly or frightful object. Unpleasant behaviour. There was some ugliness at the council meeting. Synonyms. [ edit] See also Thesaurus:ugliness. Antonyms. [ edit]
