ugliness
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- uglinesse (obsolete)
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Pronunciation
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[edit]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
- An unsightly or frightful object.
- 1986, Daniel Garrett, “Creating Ourselves: An Open Letter”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 94:
- Then she wrote back to me, responding to everything I wrote but this reference to love and sex […] A week or so went by, and she called. She was worried about me, wanted me to be careful, wanted to be happy, but she said that she had ignored that "ugliness" in my letter.
- Unpleasant behaviour.
- There was some ugliness at the council meeting.
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[edit]condition of being ugly
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unsightly or frightful object
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