carbuncle
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The long-running "Plook on the Plinth" Carbuncle Award for "the most dismal town in Scotland" has been scrapped following a backlash from its latest recipient.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
Winning the Carbuncle Award in 2010 was embarrassing for John O' Groats.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025
The Carbuncle Cup, for the ugliest building of the year, was launched by Building Design magazine in 2006, "for crimes against architecture".
From The Guardian • May 21, 2013
One, Strata SE1, won the Carbuncle Cup for worst building of the year.
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013
The Anthrax is very near the same thing as the Carbuncle, only with this difference, that the latter always appears in the Glandulous Parts, and the Anthrax every where else.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
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