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eyesore

[ahy-sawr, ahy-sohr] / ˈaɪˌsɔr, ˈaɪˌsoʊr /


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"Burying the cables is expensive so if this is an alternative to make it a bit less of an eyesore, it's probably a good idea."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Since then, the site has sat empty and become an eyesore, said Chito Vela, an Austin city council member whose district includes the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But for everyone else in the Studio City neighborhood with a view of the house, it is an eyesore and a hazard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"It has been an eyesore for a number of years," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

I says that old rattletrap’s just an eyesore, yet you’ll keep it standing there in the carriage house a hundred years just so that boy can ride to the cemetery once a week.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

But festering eyesores are everywhere, as Bass herself indicated when she called in to KTLA-TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

As for the perception that storage facilities are eyesores?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

If fashion is a storyteller, what are these eyesores trying to tell us?

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

He spoke glowingly about his father’s early years as a Manhattan developer, his work turning eyesores into thriving skyscrapers, and the “vision he had to do things differently.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

The residence of Mr. Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard.

From Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse


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