eye-watering

adjective

1. painful or extremely unpleasant

   eye-watering electricity bills

Derived Forms

• ˈeye-ˌwateringly, adverb

Example Sentences

But since this is such a massive amount of data, to really do anything too fancy would take months and an eye-watering amount of computer processing to achieve.

From Los Angeles Times

The boss of the UK's largest police force has warned it faces "eye-watering cuts" to services unless ministers increase its funding.

From BBC

"You add all those things together, and you get a dramatic change in budgets of a scale that's never going to be absorbed by efficiencies, and is going to require some pretty eye-watering cuts to sort of to the services we provide to London."

From BBC

Recent history is littered with examples of Ministry of Defence projects that overrun and overspend, some in eye-watering proportions.

From BBC

But she says, “the amount of money I’m going to lose on that tour is really eye-watering”.

From BBC