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Definition of ugliness in English: uglinessnoun ˈʌɡlɪnəsˈəɡlinəs mass noun1The 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 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: uglinessnounˈəɡlēnəsˈəɡlinəs 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 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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