Thesaurus results for EYE CANDY

eye candy

noun

as in cotton candy

something attractive but lacking in substance a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy

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Recent Examples on the Web Dressed in a blue one piece bathing suit, with a piece of eye candy on each arm, Pallot worked the catwalk (for sustainable fashion brand Love for Upcycling) like a pro. —

Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024 In that sense, Lift is kind of the platonic ideal of a streaming flick: some eye candy, a few funny lines, and a plot that no sane person could possibly waste any time worrying about. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024 Trudeau’s awkward predecessors, Harper, Martin, and Chrétien, were not exactly front-page eye candy, and Canadians are still getting used to having a leader who is feted internationally. —

Jonathan Kay, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 Adams and Britt Ekland don't add much besides eye candy, but the climactic shoot-out in Scaramanga's hall-of-mirrors fun house is a thrilling homage to Orson Welles' 1948 film The Lady From Shanghai. —

Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for eye candy

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