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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There is, however, a capitalist critique baked into their surface-level ugliness.
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Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
The only moment that earns the full ugliness of its truth?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
Lanthimos’s gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The ugliness, the violence, the cruelty, the depravity, the lies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
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Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
The only moment that earns the full ugliness of its truth?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
Lanthimos’s gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The ugliness, the violence, the cruelty, the depravity, the lies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 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 5 Nov. 2025.
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