ugliness
English
Noun
ugliness (countable and uncountable, plural uglinesses)
- The condition of being ugly
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
- His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.
- 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
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- An unsightly or frightful object
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- See also Thesaurus:ugliness
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condition of being ugly
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