"sore-thumbish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "sore thumb + -ish; after the phrase stick out like a sore thumb.",
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          "ref": "1989, Plays and Players, number 425, Hansom Books, page 37",
          "text": "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.'",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "Distinct in a way that draws negative attention; out of place; conspicuous."
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        "(idiomatic, informal) Distinct in a way that draws negative attention; out of place; conspicuous."
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