eyesore

"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

They hoped it would rid them of what they consider both an eyesore and an environmental hazard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

To the east, the city’s Department of Transportation plaza is a fenced-off eyesore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

Over half of it will be elevated -- a major concern for Alexandrians who fear the tree-lined track will be replaced by eyesore concrete stilts.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

He looked at the bald spot he’d made in the lawn, an ugly eyesore, and stood up to retrieve the sod patches and pat them back down.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Tearing down the eyesores “sparked a new energy and sense of pride,” said Wiseman, who lives in nearby Portage, Ind. ‘It was like a chain reaction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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 neutral territory and the tripartite municipality of Apia were eyesores to the German consulate and Brandeis. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson