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myopic

adjective as in able only to see things near at hand

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But trying to impose such order by chasing away informal commerce and culture is myopic.

It is the myopic and solipsistic vantage point of the crotch.

But, the essay is also myopic—once again exaggerating Jewish guilt and minimizing Palestinian blame and responsibility.

It is a function of their myopic passion that they think of the Russian Empire as a pawn in their game.

There is something imposing and demanding in the myopic claims of these characters.

The most myopic of creatures could have seen that Anne was foolishly in love with her rascal husband.

Also, nature had conspired against Henry by handing him with a pair of hopelessly myopic eyes.

Thus it happens frequently in divergent strabismus, when one eye is myopic, the other emmetropic.

For near objects the myopic eye is used without accommodation and therefore also without convergent strabismus of the right.

A careless and myopic man would travel over acres of territory and miss the dollars right along.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to myopic, such as: nearsighted, shortsighted, astigmatic, biased, blind, and halfsighted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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