ugliness

noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

all, cheerful, express, immediate, innate, intolerable, universal

VERB + UGLINESS

brings, defects, despised, form, purchase, root, sort, type

UGLINESS + NOUN

advantage, council, language, poverty, puppy, unhappiness

PREP.

between, in, with

ADV.

really

Definitions

noun

The condition of being ugly.

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.

Unpleasant behaviour.

There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of being wicked

nefariousness
wickedness
vileness

Antonyms

beauty

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

Wiktionary

Even plastic surgery won't do anything for your ugliness.

Tatoeba · #6052

Seen close-up, things have a way of showing their defects, their innate ugliness.

Tatoeba · #20835

Gold gives an air of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Tatoeba · #608110

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