as in mess
something unpleasant to look at the old abandoned house was a neighborhood eyesore

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Recent Examples of eyesore For some 40 years, the land has sat unused, generating little tax revenue and posing as an eyesore. Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025 The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025 Something that can grace our bedside without looking like an eyesore. Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025 Indeed, the not-in-my-backyard crowd has less to complain about when the eyesores in question are barely visible on the horizon. Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eyesore
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mess
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  • Boaters in Fort Lauderdale will soon be able to skip the mess — and help keep the city’s waterways cleaner — thanks to a new sewage pumpout vessel launching next spring.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But this mess, about a garage band that starts to see a hint of success and is immediately torn apart by the usual rock-movie clichés, never really gets going.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Eyesore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyesore. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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