uglification

English

Etymology

From ugly +‎ -fication.

Noun

uglification (countable and uncountable, plural uglifications)

1. The process of being made ugly or uglified.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     I go to put in readiness the feast
     Kept to the honour of our goddess Famine,
     Where, for more glory, let the ceremony
     Take place of the uglification of the Queen.

   • 1928 August, R. B. Suthers, “The Disappearance of Rural England”, in The Labour Magazine, volume 7, number 4, London: Trades Union Congress; Labour Party, page 172:

     There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.

Antonyms

• beautification

Related terms

• uglify
• ugly

Translations

the process of being made ugly or uglified

• German: Entstellung f, Hässlichmachung f, Häßlichmachung f (obsolete spelling)
• Italian: imbruttimento m
• Portuguese: enfeiamento m, enfeamento m
• Romagnol: imbrutìda f, imbrutimént m
• Swedish: förfulning (sv) c