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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Here, Brooklyn’s beautiful ugliness meets a community devoted to flair.
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Photovogue, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025
The weather outside is truly frightful, but spending the holidays dressed to the nines — with looks powered by luxury Christmas sweaters that take ugliness out of the equation — will prove to be delightful.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
The dissident Russian journalists in Julia Loktev’s tremendous documentary My Undesirable Friends must also decide when to cut and run, while the doctor in Dea Kulumbegashvili continues to do her essential work alone, absorbing the ugliness faced by the women in her stretch of rural Georgia.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
There is, however, a capitalist critique baked into their surface-level ugliness.
—Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
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Photovogue, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025
The weather outside is truly frightful, but spending the holidays dressed to the nines — with looks powered by luxury Christmas sweaters that take ugliness out of the equation — will prove to be delightful.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
The dissident Russian journalists in Julia Loktev’s tremendous documentary My Undesirable Friends must also decide when to cut and run, while the doctor in Dea Kulumbegashvili continues to do her essential work alone, absorbing the ugliness faced by the women in her stretch of rural Georgia.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
There is, however, a capitalist critique baked into their surface-level ugliness.
—Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 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 26 Dec. 2025.
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