ugliness
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈʌɡlɪnəs/
:
vileza
- Let us not allow the ugliness of this world to take our joy away from us.
- the ugliness of injustice
- the ugliness of poverty
So they just, you know, I saw all the ugliness that happened front and center.
- So they just, you know, I saw all the ugliness that happened front and center.
- To us, evil and ugliness seem indissolubly allied.
- And he says, and I quote, it's the ugliness of his fucking soul that riles me.
- Yeah, we create things that are, yes, there's all the ugliness in the world.
- Illness we, you know, perhaps we reject for its own sake and also because it's also productive of other things like, say, poverty or ugliness or bad senses or pain.
Examples
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...the past has a lot of ugliness to it that I think we're all trying to change in the future.
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Ugliness is cruelty, meanness of spirit, greed.
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I have to stay as far away from your kind of ugliness as I can get.
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Let us not allow the ugliness of this world to take our joy away from us.
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So already we're beginning to see the language of beauty and ugliness coming into a situation where it seems that moral judgment is in play.
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We endure a lot of ugliness to protect our right to free speech.
Academic text (2011) -
To add insult to injury, all this ugliness and poverty simply fuels more poverty and ugliness.
Academic text (2010) -
Social critics and reformers have long pointed to the ugliness of injustice.
Academic text (2010) -
So, we see that the crudeness and the desperation and the ugliness of the world has seeped inside even our youngest and most beautiful.
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We endure a lot of ugliness to protect our right to free speech.
Synonyms
28
5.2
A state of being morally wrong or evil
23
6.3
Bad behavior that people see as wrong or evil
9
8.9
Great evil that shocks people
8
6.5
A quality of doing very bad things and wanting to harm people
4
3.4
The state of being unpleasant, harmful or wrong
2
8.0
Very bad and morally wrong behavior
2
7.5
A wish to hurt or make other people suffer
1
9.5
The quality of being very evil and cruel that shocks people
1
8.8
A state of being dirty and morally bad
1
9.6
Very evil behaviour that harms other people
1
8.4
Very cruel and evil actions that harm people
1
9.9
Very bad actions that break the law
1
8.7
Cruel or very mean behavior towards other people
1
9.3
A behavior that people find morally wrong or offensive
Being very bad and cruel to other people
The quality of being very ugly or cruel in a way that shocks people
A very cruel way of behaving that shows no kindness
Very cruel actions that shock people
A very bad moral quality that makes people feel disgust or anger
An unpleasant hidden side of a person or place
Being harmful to health or to people's morals
A quality of being very unpleasant and causing strong dislike
A look or feeling that seems threatening
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ugliness also comes from ugly + -ness, and people use it for moral or social badness as well; think of it as the 'state of being ugly' applied to actions, so calling something an 'ugliness' means it is morally wrong or deeply unpleasant.