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Shortsighted   /ʃˈɔrtsˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
Shortsighted

adjective
1.
Lacking foresight or scope.  Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful.  "Shortsighted policies" , "Shortsighted critics derided the plan" , "Myopic thinking"
2.
Unable to see distant objects clearly.  Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted.
3.
Not given careful consideration.  Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident.  "An ill-judged attempt"



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"Shortsighted" Quotes from Famous Books



... your husband back to the North. You can't knife a man without him bearing the marks of it; and I learned in part why he was going back alone. The rest I guessed, by putting two and two together. You're a silly, selfish, shortsighted little fool, if my opinion is ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
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... case!" The saint's face held a mild rebuke. "I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
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... action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
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... who are shortsighted now, mother. I tell you, you would manage him better if you just put on your old grey shawl and one of your bonny white mutches, and went in half smiling and half timid and said, "I am the mother of him that writes about the Auld Lichts, and I want you to promise ...
— Margaret Ogilvy • James M. Barrie
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Words linked to "Shortsighted" :   imprudent, farsighted


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