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

Another eyesore home defeat, this time to Gloucester, cut them adrift of the top eight and a European spot for next season.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 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

As for the perception that storage facilities are eyesores?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

But that doesn’t help the problem of toxic metals from this crap which scientists say are now polluting our upper atmosphere, nor the light pollution these eyesores create.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023

Slums, the dead uniformity of long rows of houses, sordid back-gardens, bourgeois public statues—all these eyesores are mercifully hidden by the roofed surface.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott