eye candy

noun

: something superficially attractive to look at

Examples of eye candy in a Sentence

A lot of the material on their website is just eye candy. a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy
Recent Examples on the Web Though the aurora borealis is harmless eye candy, some of the particles flung at high speed by the sun towards earth can disrupt electronics on earth and in orbit. Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 Yet evolving into eye candy for humans has meant that designer ball pythons, when viewed at the species level, enjoy some of the evolutionary advantages of domestic animals, including wide dispersal. Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for eye candy 

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Word History

First Known Use

1978, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of eye candy was in 1978

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“Eye candy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20candy. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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