carbuncle

Example Sentences

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He disdained a proposed addition to London’s National Gallery as “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.”

From Washington Post • May 2, 2023

In 1984, he famously ridiculed a proposed extension to the National Gallery as a “monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.”

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

He has also been criticised for forthright views on architecture, once calling a planned modernist extension to London's National Gallery a "carbuncle", and accused of "quackery" for his advocacy of alternative medicines.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2022

"What is proposed seems to me a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," the prince said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2016

He stood there as if be were drying himself in the sun, with a wingspread of about eleven feet, a bright orange head and a magenta carbuncle.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White