Synonyms for ugliness
ug·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. uglinessnoun

   qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses

   Synonyms:
   nefariousness, vileness, wickedness

   Antonyms:
   beauty

2. nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, uglinessnoun

   the quality of being wicked

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

   Antonyms:
   beauty

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1. List of paraphrases for "ugliness":

   atrocity, horror

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1. Oscar Wilde:

   Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

2. Joseph Brodsky:

   What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

3. Jean Rostand:

   Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

4. Sam Joeckel:

   I believe this goes against the Christian beliefs that I hold closely, and that PBA claims to hold closely, pBA has chosen to reject the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: ‘Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, [racial] injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.’.

5. Marquis de Sade:

   It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.