uglinesses
uglinesses is the plural of ugliness.
Meaning of ugliness
Noun
ugliness (countable and uncountable, plural uglinesses)
- The condition of being ugly.
- 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
- An unsightly or frightful object.
- Then she wrote back to me, responding to everything I wrote but this reference to love and sex […] A week or so went by, and she called. 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
- Unpleasant behaviour.
- There was some ugliness at the council meeting.
Questions about uglinesses
- What is uglinesses the plural of?
- Uglinesses is the plural of ugliness.
Words near uglinesses in the dictionary
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