• Ugliness

    Full definition of ugliness

    Noun

    ugliness

    (countable and uncountable; plural uglinesss)
    1. The condition of being ugly
      • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1His 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.
    2. 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.
    3. An unsightly or frightful object

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