uglification
Process of marring
Uglification is the process of making something ugly or uglier.
The word was popularized by Lewis Carroll in *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, where the Mock Turtle lists it as a school subject alongside arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction.
Outside literary allusion, uglification describes deliberate aesthetic degradation: the uglification of the waterfront by industrial development, urban uglification through cheap construction.
Illegal surface markings
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
- defacementDamaging an appearance
- scrawlCareless, illegible writing
- scribbleWrite without care
vandalism · desecration · marring · blemish · scar · smear · eyesore · blighting
Becoming bent or twisted
- misshapingAltering form wrongly
- contortingTwisting into unnatural shapes
- deformingAltering original shape
- disfiguringSpoiling outward appearance
twisting · skewing · mangling · caricaturing · grotesquerie · malformation · deformation · garbling
Plant disease causing decay
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- corrosionChemical wearing away
- erosionGradual wearing away
dilapidation · disrepair · neglect · withering · crumbling · fading · decomposition · wear
State of being ugly
- hideousnessExtreme unattractiveness
- ghastlinessState of being horrifying
- grotesquenessQuality of being bizarrely ugly
- homelinessLack of physical attractiveness
plainness · unattractiveness · coarsening · vulgarization · garishness · tackiness · kitsch · cheapening
Deliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- ruinationState of complete destruction
desolation · obliteration · annihilation · desecration · sabotage · collapse · disintegration · shambles
graffiti
Illegal surface markings
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
- defacementDamaging an appearance
- scrawlCareless, illegible writing
scribble · vandalism · desecration · marring · blemish · scar · smear · eyesore · blighting · spoiling
warping
Becoming bent or twisted
- misshapingAltering form wrongly
- contortingTwisting into unnatural shapes
- deformingAltering original shape
disfiguring · twisting · skewing · mangling · caricaturing · grotesquerie · malformation · deformation · garbling · perverting
blight
Plant disease causing decay
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- corrosionChemical wearing away
erosion · dilapidation · disrepair · neglect · withering · crumbling · fading · decomposition · wear · atrophy
unsightliness
State of being ugly
- hideousnessExtreme unattractiveness
- ghastlinessState of being horrifying
- grotesquenessQuality of being bizarrely ugly
homeliness · plainness · unattractiveness · coarsening · vulgarization · garishness · tackiness · kitsch · cheapening · gracelessness
demolition
Deliberate structural destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- rubbleBroken building fragments
ruination · desolation · obliteration · annihilation · desecration · sabotage · collapse · disintegration · shambles · wasteland
uglificationbeautification
Act of enhancing appearance
beautifying · prettification · embellishment · adornment · enhancement
uglificationbeautification
Act of enhancing appearance
urban renewal · restoration · revitalization · gentrification · greening
uglificationimprovement
Positive change in quality
refinement · elevation · enrichment · amelioration · restoration