ugliness
noun
ug·li·ness
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Definition of ugliness
1
: the quality or state of being ugly
2
: something that is ugly
Examples of ugliness in a Sentence
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The presidency has grown ever more populist over the past few decades, and that’s contributed significantly to the ugliness of our politics. — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, "Biden’s Best Bet Is a Front-Porch Campaign," 30 Aug. 2019 The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. — Vogue, "The Women Designers Who Changed The Way We Dress," 14 Aug. 2019 But the way Bradford cuts into his works is all his own: a painstaking process of rooting through ugliness to make something beautiful. — David Pagel, latimes.com, "'Mark Bradford: New Works' at Hauser & Wirth," 24 Mar. 2018 The reform pictures and the sociological surveys documented only ugliness. — Longreads, "A Minor Figure," 20 July 2019 Baldy seemed all the more indomitable and gorgeous in the presence of man’s squat and belchy ugliness. — New York Times, "Welcome to America’s Newest National Park. Don’t Mind the Power Plant.," 17 July 2019 Love has taken a conventional symbol of femininity (the beauty queen) and deconstructed it, showing both the beauty and the ugliness of the image. — Lisawhill, Longreads, "Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55," 9 July 2019 There was no point in putting on backlit grey productions, shooting in bad light, revelling in ugliness. — The Economist, "Obituary: Franco Zeffirelli died on June 15th," 21 June 2019 But in this case, those two are coming together in the worst possible way and everyone is going to have to live with that ugliness. — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, "Kurtenbach: The unfair, unsavory truth of Kevin Durant’s injury," 11 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ugliness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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