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Definition of Eyesores
1. eyesore [n] - See also: eyesore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyesores
Literary usage of Eyesores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Policy Editorials by Allen Ripley Foote (1903)
"PUBLIC eyesores. A practical movement against the disfigurement of the landscape
has been started by a Massachusetts organization, the Twentieth Century ..."
2. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... who cannot fail to compare the monstrous eyesores of London with the beautiful
statues so ornamental to the appearance of the city of Paris. ..."
3. All Around the Wrekin by Walter White (1860)
"... and Old Harry—Dudley Castle —Netherton—Blackness and Greenness—The Wren's
Nest—Earthquakes—The Castle Court—eyesores—Volunteers—Woods, Rocks, Chasms, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1864)
"You can generally see, however, whether a man is of a tasty turn by the way in
which he does what his time permits him to do, and eyesores will, under every ..."
5. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1909)
"By this means nasty eyesores are got rid of. As to the method of working up the
face of the print, the writer hopes to refer later on. ..."
6. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1900)
"With dark-colored objects, white backgrounds, when placed close up, are certain
to yield eyesores in the form of shadows, which, of course, must be avoided. ..."
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