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eye-watering

adjective

  1. painful or extremely unpleasant

    eye-watering electricity bills

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • ˈ-ˌɲٱԲ adverb
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If that doesn't strike you as eye-watering, it's worth noting it will be at its highest sustained level for nearly half a century.

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And the ticket prices are "eye-watering", he told the BBC.

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Sir Mark previously warned of "eye-watering choices" and "substantial" cuts unless the government stumped up more cash for police in England and Wales.

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In March, the party leader Nigel Farage said the UK would be paying "eye-watering" sums to Mauritius and suggested the islands should be handed to the US instead.

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When the stock market began plunging last week in response to Trump’s eye-watering “Liberation Day” tariffs, economist Adam Tooze warned that the right charts to follow weren’t those trading indices, but the bond markets.

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