eye-gougingly

adv

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. hideously

    hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness

    • 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.
    • “And nothing could ever compel me to wear a gable, the most eye-gougingly ugly fashion accessory ever created.”
    • God-given talent has little to do with it. Chick's draftsmanship is amateurish, at best crudely effective, at worst eye-gougingly awful.

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