as in unattractiveness
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Recent Examples of ugliness
Splatter the ugliness with a splash of the hard stuff.
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Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
For a team with a legendary quarterback and Super Bowl aspirations, however, the ugliness of the Chiefs’ offensive slog against the Giants left a lot to be desired moving forward.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
In particular, there’s a stunning coarseness and ugliness in the Republican Party today.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Denver went 0 of 4 on third down, with some ugliness sprinkled in.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025
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Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
For a team with a legendary quarterback and Super Bowl aspirations, however, the ugliness of the Chiefs’ offensive slog against the Giants left a lot to be desired moving forward.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
In particular, there’s a stunning coarseness and ugliness in the Republican Party today.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Denver went 0 of 4 on third down, with some ugliness sprinkled in.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ugliness
Noun
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Historically, appearing fatigued has been associated with poor health, aging and unattractiveness.—
Ella Alexander,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jude didn’t intend the grotesqueness of the film’s AI images to reflect humanity’s own grotesque behaviors; that’s a matter of interpretation.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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That plainness, though, adds to the sense that Death in the Family isn’t packing in unnecessary frills, just conveying what happened and following the facts.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Ugliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ugliness. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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