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How to use ugliness in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Ugliness means the condition of being ugly. Example: “There was some ugliness at the council meeting.”

Examples of ugliness by meaning

nounThe condition of being ugly.

  • Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate
  • His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

nounAn unsightly or frightful object.

  • She was worried about me, wanted me to be careful, wanted to be happy, but she said that she had ignored that "ugliness" in my letter.1986, Daniel Garrett, “Creating Ourselves: An Open Letter”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 94

nounUnpleasant behaviour.

  • There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

More sentences with ugliness

  • There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.From the entry decided
  • From the tangled pile of ugliness snarled on the bed, Sherry gleefully pulled a pair of Mrs.2009, Jennifer Crane, Coopers Crossing, →ISBN, page 256. From the entry houseslipper
  • This ugliness, though, filled the air now.2016, Paul Quintanilla, Master Tom. From the entry sallow
  • It is a change for the better, to rub up on the ugliness of the place, see the stains it leaves.2011, Gareth Creer, Cradle To Grave, →ISBN. From the entry rub up on
  • Ugliness must not be confused with inutility.1969, C. L Proudfoot, “All about Oonts”, in The LOH (Lady of the House), Bombay: Thacker, →OCLC, page 78. From the entry oont
  • His ugliness was not unamiable: it was accidental, external, excrescential.1910, George Bernard Shaw, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. From the entry excrescential
  • According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more junkspace under construction in the twenty-first century than has survived from the twentieth.2014, Dwayne Avery, Unhomely Cinema: Home and Place in Global Cinema, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry junkspace
  • No one nationality appears to be in the absolute majority, resulting in the undefined ugliness caused by lack of pride or urban planning.1994, Christa Paula, The Road to Miran, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 205–206. From the entry Korla
  • I do not believe in ugliness.1923, William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel, page 25. From the entry United Stateser
  • Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry amorphous
  • During an epidemic like cholera, all that is base and cowardly in men of this stamp comes out in all its ugliness.1910 September 24, M. M. Basil, “Notes on Cholera”, in The British Medical Journal, London: British Medical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry choleraic
  • If the ugliness in American politics is all, or almost all, about the influence of big money, then working-class voters who support the right are victims of false consciousness.2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry false consciousness
  • He was aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness, a bundle of bones in filthy underclothes sitting weeping in the harsh white light: but he could not stop himself.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, Part Three, Chapter 3. From the entry gracelessness
  • Or more specifically, the corrupting influence of big money, of the 1 percent and the corporate elite, is the overarching source of the political ugliness we see all around us.2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry big money
  • Others in the crowded bus, having nothing better to do, took up the cry, and soon many of the higglers were chorusing about the ugliness of the fisherman playing dominoes.1986, Anthony Winkler, chapter 2, in The Painted Canoe, University of Chicago Press, page 20. From the entry chorus

Meaning of ugliness

  1. noun The condition of being ugly.
  2. noun An unsightly or frightful object.
  3. noun Unpleasant behaviour.

Full definition of ugliness

Questions about ugliness in a sentence

How do you use ugliness in a sentence?
Ugliness is used as a noun. For example: “There was some ugliness at the council meeting.”
What is a short sentence with ugliness?
“I do not believe in ugliness.”
What does ugliness mean?
Ugliness means the condition of being ugly.

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