Ugliness
['ʌglɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being ugly.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A gift of the gods to certain women entailing virtue without humility.
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Examples
- He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Men will not go on submitting to such intolerable ugliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Look at the ugliness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This hood is of thick blue cloth, attached to a cloak of the same stuff, and is a marvel of ugliness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The change from youth to age, from beauty to ugliness, may also be shown with striking effect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- That since beauty is the opposite of ugliness, they are two? Plato. The Republic.
- A cup of tea in quiet, somewhere out of the noise and ugliness, seemed for the moment the one solace she could bear. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There is not only NO NEED for our places of work to be ugly, but their ugliness ruins the work, in the end. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It begins to dawn upon me, now, that possibly, what I have been taking for uniform ugliness in the galleries may be uniform beauty after all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was strange that she should have chosen to come back and test the full effect of this shapeless, barren ugliness upon herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Cos ugliness and svindlin' never ought to be formiliar with elegance and wirtew,' replied Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Elinor used to tell her sisters that she married me for my ugliness--it was so various and amusing that it had quite conquered her prudence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I approached this tremendous being; I dared not again raise my looks upon his face, there was something so scaring and unearthly in his ugliness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He was, as the inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its repulsive ugliness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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