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homeliness

noun as in hideousness

noun as in ugliness

noun as in unsightliness

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Though 24 still stood on Seattle sidewalks in 1950, the city considered banning them in 1953 because of their “obsolescence and homeliness,” the same report said.

If a purpose of art is to arouse feeling, the Administration Building, regardless of its alleged homeliness, has been undeniably successful as an objet, if perhaps less so as a building.

Here is a man with a gift of radiant homeliness.

That he had a long history in local television gave his national shows something of their hometown homeliness: Regis’ Big Apple was yours for the taking.

Janis endured homeliness call-outs before she became famous, and even at the height of her fame she received sexist wallops that, in today’s #MeToo America, would have her critics Twitter-spanked.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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