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Squint-eyed   /skwɪnt-aɪd/   Listen
Squint-eyed

adjective
1.
Affected by strabismus.
2.
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.  Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint, squinty.  "Sidelong glances"






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"Squint-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... vices of our friends, nay, to admire and esteem them for virtues, be not at least the next degree to folly? What is it when one kisses his mistress' freckle neck, another the wart on her nose? When a father shall swear his squint-eyed child is more lovely than Venus? What is this, I say, but mere folly? And so, perhaps you'll cry it is; and yet 'tis this only that joins friends together and continues them so joined. I speak of ordinary men, of whom none are born without their imperfections, and happy is he that ...
— The Praise of Folly • Desiderius Erasmus

... Ann Cotting didn't hev but a hundred an' forty dollars, all told, an' she were an old maid an' soured an' squint-eyed when ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... length in his legs, one being shorter by several inches than the other, and, to make up for the deficiency, he wore on the short leg a boot with a very high heel. He seemed to be past middle age, his complexion was sallow and unhealthy, he was squint-eyed, and his hair, which had once been of a reddish hue, was then a grizzly gray. Taken all together he was a strange looking object, and I soon perceived that his mind wandered. At first I felt inclined to hurry onward as quickly as ...
— The Path of Duty, and Other Stories • H. S. Caswell

... said I might, so I scattered some on the snow under the pine trees, and we went in the house and peeped out of the kitchen window. At first the Robins chattered and talked for a while, looking squint-eyed at the berries, but then the bird that came on the clothes-line started down ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues



Words linked to "Squint-eyed" :   indirect, askance



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