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English
Etymology
From 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)
- (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.