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ugliness /ˈʌɡlɪnəs /noun [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...- She lived alone because of her peculiar ugliness, caused by a fire.
- 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.
1.1Unpleasantness of an immoral or violent nature: a film bent on exposing the ugliness of prejudice the futility and ugliness of war...- 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.
- Evidently, a lot of the ugliness occurred near the end of the concert, about the time that Jethro Tull was scheduled to perform.
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