eyesore

[ ahy-sawr, ahy-sohr ]

noun

1. something unpleasant to look at:

   The run-down house was an eyesore to the neighbors.

eyesore

/ ˈaɪˌsɔː /

noun

1. something very ugly

Word History and Origins

Origin of eyesore¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; eye, sore

Example Sentences

If you thought the rare division winner with a losing record was an eyesore, wait until you get that in addition to frequent 8-9 wild-card teams.

From Washington Post

This often leads to cable clutter that can be both an eyesore and a nuisance to your workspace.

From Popular-Science

In Port Isabel, Hockema said he fears that the Texas LNG terminal will be approved and built, and then abandoned for lack of business, leaving the town with a permanent, hulking eyesore.

From Washington Post

Even if Lynn and his staff didn’t call the run, it remains an eyesore in an overall picture that also includes a 3-8 record.

From Washington Post

And, not insignificantly, huge arrays of solar panels can be an eyesore.

From Quartz

In 1991, Detroit Mayor Colman Young, who thought the area was an eyesore, had many of the installations demolished.

From The Daily Beast

Republicans are also moving on immigration, which leaves sequester as the eyesore of the evening.

From The Daily Beast

It began building an important project on an area that was an eyesore—an ugly multistory parking lot—then stumbled into this mess.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, the lifeless shell of the Concordia is a rusting eyesore on the rocks off the coast of Giglio.

From The Daily Beast

In the limelight, every glitch and wart becomes an eyesore for an international audience.

From The Daily Beast

The Commissioners, from the first moment of their institution, had been an eyesore to the people of Boston.

From Project Gutenberg

If this is not done, they become that greatest eyesore, a degenerated ornament.

From Project Gutenberg

At last she questioned Knight, and complained that the bristly barrier was an eyesore.

From Project Gutenberg

And as for the son and heir, he shall be an eyesore to no young revellers, for he shall be drawn in cloth-of-gold breeches.

From Project Gutenberg

Two other cuts—mere rabblement and eyesore—leave on the mind a feeling of disgust almost without interest and without shame.

From Project Gutenberg

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