aesthetically challenged

aesthetically challenged

Distinctly unattractive or unpleasant to the eye; ugly. (Pseudo-politically correct slang used for humorous effect.) Primarily heard in UK. Deborah's new boyfriend is a bit aesthetically challenged, but she loves him and I guess that's all that counts.
See also: challenged
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • challenged
  • esthetically challenged
  • plug-ugly
  • like the back of a bus
  • pug-ugly
  • hard on the eyes
  • fugly
  • short on looks
  • I don't fancy yours (much)
  • be (as) ugly as sin
References in periodicals archive
And as she meets these aesthetically challenged pets, she is sometimes repulsed.
The disorderly proliferation of these 'supergraphics' as well as 'still' graphics needs to be addressed, too, by our lawmakers as a way of holistically addressing frequent road crashes and changing the visual impact of our cities as landscapes of congested, messy and aesthetically challenged thoroughfares and skylines.
Psychologists have confirmed that a person can appear relatively attractive hang someone aesthetically challenged.that explains Kim Kanye, then.
Wishee Washee (Charlie Richmond) joins the aesthetically challenged Twankey as a cracking foil for laughs.
Escoiquiz' rhymed lines are usually twelve-syllables long, sometimes eleven; further, as he declares in his "Prologo del Traductor" (Translator's Prologue), he intends to catholicize Milton by omitting anti-Catholic passages while greatly expanding other passages--the result, a polemically and aesthetically challenged poem about as twice as long as the original.
| AESTHETICALLY CHALLENGED: The Blobfish won a public vote to become the official mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society
IT looked like poor old Cinders wasn't going to the ball after all - but for once it had nothing to do with a woeful wardrobe or two aesthetically challenged siblings tearing up her invitation.
Men, on the other hand, can get away with relative anonymity as far as their looks are concerned, unless someone is excessively aesthetically challenged, either hygienically or sartorially (e.g., a penchant for seersucker in January).
A BIRMINGHAM lawyer has warned "aesthetically challenged" wealthy men to beware of a new breed of gold-digger - the ''piranha''.
All the EmX projects built so far have improved the traffic corridors they serve, therefore the effort to keep West 11th Avenue a clogged, aesthetically challenged gantlet seems medieval.
The 14-year-old Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix beat almost 50 aesthetically challenged canines to the crown.
But aesthetically challenged members are so outraged at the move that the website's operators have been forced to set up a counselling line to help them deal with the rejection.
Verdict Still aesthetically challenged SHEEPSKIN RATING ***
Pop stars declare their queerness in People magazine; aesthetically challenged heterosexuals are rescued by a bevy of primetime queens; and a love story about gay cowboys is nominated for multiple Oscars.
There are so many that deserve the chop - but none more than the aesthetically challenged, and now empty, Scala House opposite our hotel