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Recent Examples of ugliness
And yet, disagreement, in virtually any form, has unfortunately become synonymous with the ugliness of confrontation and dispute.
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Christina L. Sgro, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
No one escaped blame during the 19-game ugliness into the new year, but the goaltending, which was this team’s saving grace during the 12-4-1 start, has risen back to the top in January.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Using handheld cameras and eschewing the swooping shots that defined his career, Spielberg gave us a Holocaust full of ugliness and chaos, of average people turned into monsters.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Prefiguring the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, one of humanity’s most influential chroniclers of petroleum to date, Orwell turns industrial ugliness into beauty through the elegance of his sentences.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
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Christina L. Sgro, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
No one escaped blame during the 19-game ugliness into the new year, but the goaltending, which was this team’s saving grace during the 12-4-1 start, has risen back to the top in January.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Using handheld cameras and eschewing the swooping shots that defined his career, Spielberg gave us a Holocaust full of ugliness and chaos, of average people turned into monsters.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Prefiguring the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, one of humanity’s most influential chroniclers of petroleum to date, Orwell turns industrial ugliness into beauty through the elegance of his sentences.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
See All Example Sentences for ugliness
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“Ugliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ugliness. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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