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What is the adjective for ugliness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs uglify and ugly which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ugly
  1. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
  2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
  4. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
  5. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. hideous, unattractive, unsightly, ghastly, gruesome, grisly, unpleasant, nasty, shocking, disgusting, revolting, grotesque, monstrous, deformed, disfigured, unpretty, plain-featured, unhandsome, plain-looking, unbeautiful, abominable, bestial, detestable, gross, horrendous, horrid, loathsome, macabre, morbid, offensive, repulsive, sickening, terrible, terrifying, unappealing, unlovely, weird, misshapen, unpleasing, unprepossessing, plain, repugnant, repellent, vile, grim, foul, awful, frightful, horrible, disagreeable … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “It was as ugly a beast as anyone could imagine, yet gentle in nature.”
      “Expect things to get ugly when the two rival gangs clash at sundown.”
      “There had been ugly revelations about the governor's abhorrent behavior, followed by widespread condemnation.”
uglisome
  1. Characterised or marked by ugliness
uglier
  1. comparative form of ugly: more ugly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ghastlier, gruesomer, grislier, unpleasanter, nastier, disgustinger, grotesquer, grosser, horrider, terribler, unlovelier, weirder, plainer, viler, grimmer, fouler, awfuller, horribler, uncomelier, beastlier, unseemlier, more hideous, more unattractive, more unsightly, more revolting, more monstrous, more deformed, more unpretty, more unhandsome, more unbeautiful, more abominable, more bestial, more detestable, more horrendous, more loathsome, more macabre, more morbid, more offensive, more repulsive, more sickening, more terrifying, more unappealing, more misshapen, more unpleasing, more unprepossessing, more repugnant, more repellent, more frightful, more disagreeable, more displeasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I'm used to ugly concrete and unmaintained greenery and even uglier adverts along the roads.”
      “Everywhere you look, beautiful, nubile young girls languish on the arms of badly dressed, uglier, older men.”
      “Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.”
ugliest
  1. superlative form of ugly: most ugly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ghastliest, gruesomest, grisliest, unpleasantest, nastiest, disgustingest, grotesquest, grossest, horridest, terriblest, unloveliest, weirdest, plainest, vilest, grimmest, foulest, awfullest, horriblest, uncomeliest, beastliest, unseemliest, most hideous, most unattractive, most unsightly, most revolting, most monstrous, most deformed, most unpretty, most unhandsome, most unbeautiful, most abominable, most bestial, most detestable, most horrendous, most loathsome, most macabre, most morbid, most offensive, most repulsive, most sickening, most terrifying, most unappealing, most misshapen, most unpleasing, most unprepossessing, most repugnant, most repellent, most frightful, most disagreeable, most displeasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth.”
      “Four years later he found himself both a millionaire and embroiled in the ugliest of financial scandals.”
      “Believe me when I tell you that I would make the world's ugliest cross-dresser.”
uglified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of uglify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defaced, disfigured, deformed, blotted, hurt, marred, spoilt, spoiled, ruined, impaired, blemished, scarred, mangled, blighted, damaged, vandalized, harmed, distorted, endamaged, vandalised, crossed up, injured, flawed, mutilated, crippled, defiled, maimed, compromised, vitiated, crabbed, bloodied, made unattractive, made ugly, wrecked, destroyed, trashed, totalled, totaled, demolished, broke, brake, broken, tarnished, wound, wounded, disfeatured, sullied, disfashioned, contorted, dilapidated … more
uglifying
  1. present participle of uglify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defacing, disfiguring, deforming, blotting, marring, spoiling, ruining, impairing, blemishing, scarring, mangling, blighting, damaging, vandalizing, harming, hurting, distorting, endamaging, vandalising, crossing up, injuring, flawing, mutilating, crippling, maiming, defiling, compromising, vitiating, breaking, crabbing, bloodying, making unattractive, making ugly, wounding, disfeaturing, disfashioning, wrecking, destroying, trashing, totalling, totaling, demolishing, tarnishing, sullying, contorting, dilapidating, misshaping, scratching, obliterating, ravaging … more
uglied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ugly
uglying
  1. present participle of ugly
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