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Ugliness

UG'LINESS, 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.