as in unattractiveness
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Recent Examples of ugliness
Amid the ugliness to begin 2025, Coors Field’s been the opposite of a haven.
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2025
And as Dave Delgado, the shop teacher who becomes Nancy’s confidant, Gael García Bernal tries to echo Kidman’s bubbly innocence, though he’s also tasked with flare-ups of ugliness that make this approach jarring.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
The Heat lost their eighth straight game Monday in New York, getting outscored 41-15 in a third quarter too representative of this ugliness.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
As discussed at the time of the Newcastle takeover in 2021, this is all part of the ugliness of modern football — particularly in England, where the authorities have repeatedly turned a blind eye, happy to accept investment from almost any source, seemingly unworried by the strings attached.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2025
And as Dave Delgado, the shop teacher who becomes Nancy’s confidant, Gael García Bernal tries to echo Kidman’s bubbly innocence, though he’s also tasked with flare-ups of ugliness that make this approach jarring.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
The Heat lost their eighth straight game Monday in New York, getting outscored 41-15 in a third quarter too representative of this ugliness.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
As discussed at the time of the Newcastle takeover in 2021, this is all part of the ugliness of modern football — particularly in England, where the authorities have repeatedly turned a blind eye, happy to accept investment from almost any source, seemingly unworried by the strings attached.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Ugliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ugliness. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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