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eyesore

[ahy-sawr, ahy-sohr]

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noun

something unpleasant to look at: The run-down house was an eyesore to the neighbors.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; see eye, sore

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eyesore (ˈaɪˌsɔː)

—n
	something very ugly

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eyesore

"something offensive to the eye," 1530, from eye + sore (n.).

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"He made all these and more,
Made all we see; and us, in spite: how else?
He could not, Himself, make a second self
To be His mate: as well have made Himself:
He would not make what He mislikes or slights,
An eyesore to Him, or not worth His pains;
But did, in envy, listlessness, or sport,
Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be—
Weaker in most points, stronger in a few,
Worthy, and yet mere playthings all the while,
Things He admires and mocks too,—"

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