Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent stench emitted as it rots.

The influx has raised the ire of many neighbors, who complain about unsightly tarps, trash raw sewage and crime, even as the camps are essential housing for thousands of people.

Being bitten by a mosquito can result in an itchy, unsightly red bump and — depending on where you are — serious disease.

Visitors said it had become ‘unsightly,’ and so the arm was incinerated and buried.

Even so, unsightly losses in a six-month baseball season are inevitable, particularly those against a surging opponent punctuating a seven-game road trip.