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uglify, v.|ˈʌglɪfaɪ|
[f. ugly a. + -fy.]
trans. To make ugly or repulsive in appearance; to disfigure.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. ii. iii. 117 It defourmeth and vglyfyeth the skinne wyth dry, skuruye, skalie, mangie, and fylthye eruptions. 1650B. Discolliminium 46 These derne, dreery, direfull dayes condunghill'd and uglified me into a darke dense lumpe. 1792F. Burney Diary V. vii. 313 She is..completely a beauty... She uglifies everything near her. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 613/1 When Mr. Luke marvelled at his daughter, disguised and uglified. 1857Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) II. 317, I remember little or nothing of this edifice, except that the Covenanters had uglified it with pews and a gallery, and whitewash. 1898J. A. Hobson Ruskin 304 The power exercised by irresponsible wealth..to uglify the outward aspects of life.
Hence ˈuglifying ppl. a.
1886New Princetown Rev. I. 107 A protest against that uglifying process by which women are coaxed into resignation to old age and death.
Add: ˈuglified ppl. a.; ˈuglifier n., one who uglifies or makes ugly.
1854G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 14 Oct. 195/2, I cannot..yield myself up..to the uglifiers—men who have an innate..hatred of every thing in which there is the slightest trace of beauty, symmetry, or fancy. 1931Observer 27 Sept. 15/3 At the Victoria Palace [theatre]..Mr. Harold Walden belongs to the uglifiers and wears the lethal look beloved of clowns. 1961Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 8/8 (heading) Uglified cities. 1987N.Y. Times 11 Apr. i. 27/1 If we quit calling their work ‘development’ and called it ‘uglification’, we could call them ‘uglifiers’. 1990Maclean's 14 May 72/1 Across the street from the 18-storey hotel is rising another uglified concrete mass. |