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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



... Insolence, Bloated empiric, puffed Pretence, Noise that through a trumpet speaks, Laughter in loud peals that breaks, Intrusion with a fopling's face, Ignorant of time and place, Sparks of fire Dissension blowing, Ductile, court-bred Flattery, bowing, Restraint's stiff neck, Grimace's leer, Squint-eyed Censure's artful sneer, Ambition's buskins, steeped in blood, Fly thy ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
 
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... their pace as they caught sight of Tom. Andy Foger, a red-haired and squint-eyed lad, a sort of town bully, with a rich and indulgent father, was the first to reach ...
— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton
 
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... dog, a squint-eyed Cerberus with what Count Victor for once condemned as a tribal gibberish for his language, so that he was incapable of understanding what was said to him even if he had been ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
 
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