Citations:sore-thumbish

Adjective: "(idiomatic) distinct in a way that draws negative attention; out of place; conspicuous"

 * 1968, Charlotte Armstrong, Lemon in the Basket, Fawcett Publications (1968), page 18:
 * "All right," Duncan chuckled. "Granted, Rufus seems to have fallen into fast company. Also granted, it did seem on the sore-thumbish side tonight.
 * 1987, Acres, U.S.A., Volume 12, unknown page:
 * On the other hand, too much top quality corn silage can trigger ketosis and you're lucky if it's sore-thumbish and easy to spot.
 * 1989, Plays and Players, Issue 425, page 37:
 * Many of the serious bits, by contrast, were slow and sore-thumbish, abounding in what the New Yorker used to call cries we doubt ever got cried, like 'that man Robespierre will go far.'
 * 1995, Jazz Journal International, page 44:
 * On CD1, an Albert King 1977 Montreux Festival recording of I'll Play The Blues For You sticks out a bit sore-thumbish as a performance that would better belong in that more pop-influenced CD4,
 * 2004, Paul McFedries, Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture, Broadway Books (2004), ISBN 9780767918077, unnumbered page:
 * 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 a sore-thumbish way.
 * 2007, Sonya Sones, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2007), ISBN 9780689876028, page 77:
 * It looks so what-am-I-doing-here?,
 * so sore-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.