eye-watering

adjective

1. painful or extremely unpleasant

   eye-watering electricity bills

Other Word Forms

• eye-wateringly adverb

Example Sentences

Everyone accepted the money being talked about, even for one of the Premier League's highest earners, was eye-watering.

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But despite eye-watering salaries across the Atlantic for AI scientists and engineers, many students argue that the best place to study and work is not Silicon Valley, but Paris.

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Italy hopes its deficit will fall within EU limits this year, but debt remains an eye-watering 135 percent of gross domestic product.

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The row saw the two slap each other with eye-watering tariffs this year, and while they have reached a shaky detente, tensions continue to simmer.

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That Paxos could mint an eye-watering $300 trillion worth sum so easily, and obviously without $300 trillion in backing, should raise eyebrows.

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