Example sentences for: ugliness

How can you use “ugliness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Bush acquitted himself poorly nonetheless, by once again shirking an opportunity to stand up to ugliness in his own party.

  • At times, Duvall seemed to be sentimentalizing the gypsies; at others, he seemed to be rubbing our noses in their ugliness and duplicity--or was that just my racism?

  • These kinds of unorthodox responses to rock's creation myth were fresh enough to make me expect more from the later chapters than a gloss on punk as simply rock's "quintessence" of "stunning ugliness."

  • At one point, Joe muses that Dirac's early theory of quantum electrodynamics was slow to gain acceptance because it was aesthetically unappealing--"Acceptance withheld on grounds of ugliness"--and this phrase could well serve as the novel's ironic motto, for its plot is littered with examples of this prejudice.

  • Improvements in architecture, regaining intimate space and scale and all the rest, won't disguise the ugliness of advertising the local bank, Chevy dealer, and chain retailer as a backdrop for baseball.


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