Eye-gougingly

adv, slang

adv, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness informal, not-comparable

    "I'm about to return the telephone to its cradle, and resume work on Candidate Two, when a middle-aged woman dressed in an eye-gougingly hideous neon orange floral print dress approaches my door."

Example

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"I'm about to return the telephone to its cradle, and resume work on Candidate Two, when a middle-aged woman dressed in an eye-gougingly hideous neon orange floral print dress approaches my door."

Etymology

From eye + gouging + -ly, suggesting that one would gouge out one's own eyes rather than look at something so ugly.

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