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Ugly feature, reportedly, I saw? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eyesore

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'ugly feature' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'reportedly i saw?' is the wordplay.
'reportedly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'saw?' becomes 'sore' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'i' sounds like 'eye'.
'eye'+'sore'='EYESORE'

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(Other definitions for eyesore that I've seen before include "Ugly structure" , "it looks bad" , "offensive to viewers" , "Blight" , "mess" .)

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