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单词 ugliness
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Definition of ugliness in English:

ugliness

noun ˈʌɡlɪnəsˈəɡlinəs
mass noun
  • 1The quality of being unpleasant or repulsive in appearance.

    Helena gives a soliloquy comparing her ugliness to Hermia's beauty
    the sheer ugliness of this architectural monstrosity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She lived alone because of her peculiar ugliness, caused by a fire.
    • One critic applauded this famous man for revealing his ugliness.
    • The stultifying ugliness of a northern British industrial city is somehow transformed into a kind of wild beauty by the way the ratio opens up the image.
    • The ugliness of fashionably thin, beautiful models is clear and sickening.
    • There's no denying the ugliness of much of the surrounding neighborhood, with its filthy streets and corroding industrial buildings.
    1. 1.1 Unpleasantness of an immoral or violent nature.
      a film bent on exposing the ugliness of prejudice
      the futility and ugliness of war
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Evidently, a lot of the ugliness occurred near the end of the concert, about the time that Jethro Tull was scheduled to perform.
      • Brookside showed societal ugliness in a way no soap opera had done before.
      • He was branded an anti-semite during the ugliness around the re-edit of The Contender.
      • She has written an updated foreword to her book about the ugliness that was Bonfire of the Vanities.
      • The answer swiftly becomes clear: because the Reconstruction period is when the film's floodgates open, and the true ugliness emerges.
 
 

Definition of ugliness in US English:

ugliness

nounˈəɡlēnəsˈəɡlinəs
  • 1The quality of being unpleasant or repulsive in appearance.

    Helena gives a soliloquy comparing her ugliness to Hermia's beauty
    the sheer ugliness of this architectural monstrosity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She lived alone because of her peculiar ugliness, caused by a fire.
    • One critic applauded this famous man for revealing his ugliness.
    • There's no denying the ugliness of much of the surrounding neighborhood, with its filthy streets and corroding industrial buildings.
    • The stultifying ugliness of a northern British industrial city is somehow transformed into a kind of wild beauty by the way the ratio opens up the image.
    • The ugliness of fashionably thin, beautiful models is clear and sickening.
    1. 1.1 Unpleasantness of an immoral or violent nature.
      a film bent on exposing the ugliness of prejudice
      the futility and ugliness of war
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Evidently, a lot of the ugliness occurred near the end of the concert, about the time that Jethro Tull was scheduled to perform.
      • Brookside showed societal ugliness in a way no soap opera had done before.
      • The answer swiftly becomes clear: because the Reconstruction period is when the film's floodgates open, and the true ugliness emerges.
      • He was branded an anti-semite during the ugliness around the re-edit of The Contender.
      • She has written an updated foreword to her book about the ugliness that was Bonfire of the Vanities.
 
 
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