ugliness

Example Sentences

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Not all librarians have experienced strife and ugliness during years of political division.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

As if the ugliness of the 120 minutes wasn't enough - the grisly battle, the hair-on-fire panic, the abysmal lack of anything resembling coherence or even competence - there was the disgrace of the post-match.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Within a paragraph, Alito then suggested that Scalia would have been “appalled” by the ugliness, the coarseness of the discourse.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

The laws of war, developed over centuries, seek to keep the ugliness to the minimum required by the nature of the enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Bodega would go down as a representation of all the ugliness in Spanish Harlem and also all the good it was capable of being.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez