eye-gougingly

English

Etymology

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

Adverb

eye-gougingly (not comparable)

1. (informal) hideously; with an extreme degree of ugliness
   • 2010, Julie Kushner, Life Sucks, Death Bites, page 15:

     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.

   • 2012, Katherine Longshore, Gilt:

     “And nothing could ever compel me to wear a gable, the most eye-gougingly ugly fashion accessory ever created.”

   • 2012, Mary Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, page 183:

     God-given talent has little to do with it. Chick's draftsmanship is amateurish, at best crudely effective, at worst eye-gougingly awful.