Definition of eye candy
: something superficially attractive to look at
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Examples of eye candy in a Sentence
A lot of the material on their Web site is just eye candy.
a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy
Recent Examples of eye candy from the Web
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Then pepper in your Instagram eye candy: a trendy top, graphic pants, etc.
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The main function of NFL cheerleaders is to be eye candy.
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The sometimes-roiling, sometimes-placid, always-beautiful waves provide surprisingly varied eye candy, all set off by picturesque blasts of sun and haunting sheets of rain.
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The Wagoneer Roadtrip is one of seven pieces of eye candy created ahead of the 52nd Moab Easter Jeep Safari set for March 24-April 1 in Utah.
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Yayoi Kusama fans, the Broad has some new eye candy: The museum has acquired one of the artist’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, a spokesperson said, and will install it for public viewing as soon as Saturday.
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Frescos, coats of arms, and a copper-tile roof are serious architectural eye candy.
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At the same time, the tendency to treat men as customers to be wooed and women as eye candy to be viewed has been remarkably persistent, even as the casino industry has transformed itself.
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True to his word, there were a lot of plastic fantastic fluorescent looks — eye candy for social media — that should also attract pop stars like moths to a flame.
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First Known Use of eye candy
1978
EYE CANDY Defined for English Language Learners
eye candy
Definition of eye candy for English Language Learners
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: someone or something that is attractive but is not serious or interesting
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