Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)Distinctin a way that drawsnegativeattention;out of place;conspicuous.1989,Plays and Players, number425,Hansom Books, page37:Many of the serious bits, by contrast, were slow andsore-thumbish, abounding in what the New Yorker used to call cries we doubt ever got cried, like 'that man Robespierre will go far.'2004, Paul McFedries,Word Spy: The Word Lover’s Guide to Modern Culture, New York, N.Y.:Broadway Books,→ISBN:In a neighborhood of modest bungalows, tearing down an existing house and shoehorning a multistory, 5,000-square-foot behemoth into the same lot makes the new home stick out in asore-thumbishway.2007,Sonya Sones, “Mom Drives Me over to Harvard Ten Minutes Early”, inWhat My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, New York, N.Y.:Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,→ISBN,page77:It looks so what-am-I-doing-here?, / sosore-thumbish, so entirely out of place, / among all these ancient ivy-covered buildings, / that it kind of reminds me of a UFO. / Or of an alien.
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