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Webster 1913 Edition


Ugliness

Ug′li-ness

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Noun.
The quality or state of being ugly.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ugliness

UG'LINESS

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Noun.
[from ugly.]
1.
Total want of beauty; deformity of person; as old age and ugliness.
2.
Turpitude of mind; moral depravity; lothesomeness.
Their dull ribaldry must be offensive to any one who does not, for the sake of the sin, pardon the ugliness of its circumstances.