Antonyms for uglinessug·li·ness

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1. uglinessnoun

   Antonyms:
   beauty

2. uglinessnoun

   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

   Antonyms:
   beauty

3. uglinessnoun

   Antonyms:
   beauty

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1. • Appearance

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1. uglinessnoun

   qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses

   Antonyms:
   beauty

   Synonyms:
   nefariousness, vileness, wickedness

2. nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, uglinessnoun

   the quality of being wicked

   Antonyms:
   beauty

   Synonyms:
   darkness, lousiness, sinfulness, wickedness, sliminess, repulsiveness, vileness, dark, loathsomeness, immorality, nefariousness, evil, sin, iniquity

How to use ugliness in a sentence?

1. Boileau:

   Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.

2. Pastor Packiam:

   Sin is not just ‘out there’ in the world — it’s ‘in here’ in us, when we cannot hide behind the projections of ourselves on social media, when we cannot distract ourselves with TV and phones and internet, when we cannot indulge ourselves in food and drink, thenwe come face to face with ourselves — our ugliness and our brokenness.

3. Seán O'Casey:

   If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   We all have to call out this ugliness wherever we see it and make sure hatemongers know their evil has no place … in California.

5. David Paskin:

   This is not about policies, this is not about parties, this is about one particular person, Donald Trump, who has encouraged and incited violence at his campaign rallies, we are against the hatred, the incitement of hatred, the ugliness that has engulfed this political season.

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