eyesore

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

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

“Right in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the blighted Oceanwide Plaza has been an eyesore for too long due to failed ownership,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

For five years Radisson's G&V Hotel, on the corner of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and George IV Bridge, has been a plastic-wrapped eyesore.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

Eros is not so much an eyesore, it turns out, as just too much noise.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

He described his father, who was not present in court, as someone who was on the leading edge of creating value in properties and could turn "eyesores" into "jewels".

From BBC ● 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

"To remove such eyesores as advertising signs from the neighborhood of Elmhurst."

From Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)