Ūg'li-ness, n.

n. [From ugly.]

1. The quality of being ugly; offensiveness of aspect; want of beauty; deformity of person; as, old age and ugliness.
2. Turpitude of mind; moral depravity; loathsomeness; also, ill-nature; crossness.

Their dull ribaldry must be offensive to any one who does not, for the sake of the sin, pardon the ugliness of its circumstances. South.