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
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Gill is the kind of Gen Z eye candy that cricket needs, especially as Kohli is urging youngsters to prioritize the Test match format. Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 In that benighted era, smart and beautiful women like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Judy Holliday were perennially cast in jiggle roles: empty headed, screen-filling eye candy. Guy Trebay, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025 The interiors aren’t the only eye candy though: Consider the gobsmacking sunsets on view from the terrace overlooking the lake. Shannon Sharpe, Architectural Digest, 14 May 2025 Flowers aren’t simply eye candy—each type of bloom has a different meaning. Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eye candy

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 26 Jun. 2025.

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