as in unattractiveness
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Recent Examples of ugliness
Instead, the camera simply observes these lives, which are astonishing in their ugliness, danger, and dread.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
Here, Brooklyn’s beautiful ugliness meets a community devoted to flair.
—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
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
Here, Brooklyn’s beautiful ugliness meets a community devoted to flair.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ugliness
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Historically, appearing fatigued has been associated with poor health, aging and unattractiveness.—
Ella Alexander,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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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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While Nara Smith has gained popularity for cooking entirely from scratch, Bob’s approach is leans into relatability, comfort and homeliness rather than aspiration.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
23 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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Catullus’s work shows us ourselves, in all our three-dimensional goodness and terribleness, and sometimes this vision, in 2025, comes as a fun vindication.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Ugliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ugliness. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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