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  2. Unattractiveness - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Aesthetically unfavorable characteristic The Ugly Duchess (painting by Quentin Matsys, c. 1513) Unattractiveness or ugliness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically unfavorable. Terminology Ugliness is a property of a person or thing that is ...

  3. Ugly American (pejorative) - Wikipedia

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    The Collins English Dictionary defines an Ugly American as "a stereotypical representation of an American tourist as a brash and insensitive philistine." [13] The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition is: "an American in a foreign country whose behavior is offensive to the people of that country." [14]

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    In AmE widely used also to mean the physical structure and property, and references to them, e.g., "home loans", "homeowners", and "tract homes". This usage is overwhelmingly predominant in commercial language and public discourse, e.g. "the home mortgage crisis". home run final part of a distance, final effort needed to finish (US: homestretch)

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Raise means to move to a higher position [98] while raze means to tear down. [99] redundant does not mean "useless" or "unable to perform its function". It means that there is an excess of something, that something is "surplus to requirements" and no longer needed.

  6. Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Xu Shen's Shuowen defines both words as 蛇種 "a type of snake". The American philologist and linguist Victor H. Mair explains the modern significance of these two ancient graphic pejoratives as follows: The debasement of local languages and cultures in China (whether they are Sinitic or non-Sinitic) is so ubiquitous that people become inured ...

  7. How people define beauty in 19 different countries - AOL

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    Ester Honig, a human interest reporter, sent out a photograph of herself to 40 different photo editors in 25 different countries and gave them a single task -- to make her look beautiful.

  8. Ugly - Wikipedia

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    Ugly may refer to: Ugliness, a property of a person or thing that is unpleasant to look at, listen to or contemplate; Music. ... 9 languages ...

  9. Pejorative suffix - Wikipedia

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    The Catalan language has pejorative suffixes. -alla -alles Suffixed to nouns gives new nouns. Examples: gentalla (from gent "people"). It's also used as a collective (group) suffix.-arro -arros (fem. -arra -arras) Suffixed to nouns gives new nouns. Example: veuarra (from veu "voice"). It's also used as an augmentative suffix.