Timeline for Word which means - "decreases the beauty "
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 9:56 | comment | added | bof | Lewis Carroll may have put "uglification" on the map but he doesn't own it. The online OED has citations going back to 1820 for "uglification" and 1576 for "uglify" or rather "vglyfyeth" as it was spelled and conjugated back then. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 10:50 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | There's also "hit with the ugly stick", which is a modern, similarly silly expression | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 20:19 | history | answered | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |