ugliness
noun
ug·li·ness
ˈə-glē-nəs 
1
: the quality or state of being ugly
2
: something that is ugly
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Using handheld cameras and eschewing the swooping shots that defined his career, Spielberg gave us a Holocaust full of ugliness and chaos, of average people turned into monsters.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Prefiguring the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, one of humanity’s most influential chroniclers of petroleum to date, Orwell turns industrial ugliness into beauty through the elegance of his sentences.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
But for all of the dangers presented by the depths of the ocean and the peaks of mountains, cuteness or wildly exaggerated ugliness generally prevail.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The seasons change, the significant intertwines with the insignificant, and beauty and ugliness coexist.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Prefiguring the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, one of humanity’s most influential chroniclers of petroleum to date, Orwell turns industrial ugliness into beauty through the elegance of his sentences.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
But for all of the dangers presented by the depths of the ocean and the peaks of mountains, cuteness or wildly exaggerated ugliness generally prevail.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The seasons change, the significant intertwines with the insignificant, and beauty and ugliness coexist.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ugliness
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“Ugliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ugliness. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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