uglify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of uglify
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“I thought it was impossible to uglify Jude Law and illegal to make an un hot Captain Hook but Disney has proved me wrong yet again,” @neon_heartbeat tweeted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Also off-limits is wearing shorts, skirts or tight-fitting clothes: Julia and her friends uglify themselves.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2018
"My favorite occupation," he said, "is to make others famous, to uglify them, to enrich their ugliness."
From Time Magazine Archive
He’d find out that I was the Princess, and he’d uglify me again in no time.’
From The Magic World by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
"Well then," the Gryphon went on, "if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton."
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
All progress comes with a cost of course -- hasn't the automobile, so necessary in our lives, completely altered and uglified the world's landscapes?
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2010
So anyway, Arthur Evesham's kingdom'd uglified since his death.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Percy grimaced, which looked even worse on his newly uglified face.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
‘Father banished them all twenty years ago,’ said Aura behind her veil, ‘all but the one who uglified me.’
From The Magic World by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
She sat for two hours in the victoria, enduring the tortures of the uglified, watching him out of the tail of her eye and waiting for a sign of recognition.
From Septimus by William John Locke
“The resurrection of the Jews is the greatest story ever told,” Ms. Wisse says, “and while our enemies were hard at work uglifying it, we told the story of the Holocaust.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
He owns the joint, and pines for the day when he will be sprung from his uglifying hex by the touch of love.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2017
On Sept. 30, Ms. Ballinger posted a video titled “Life Update” on one of her YouTube channels, PsychoSoprano, that looked much the same, minus the uglifying Miranda Sings makeup.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2016
Not a single feature, from the feet to the eyeballs, has escaped the uglifying process.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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