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nearsighted

[neer-sahy-tid, -sahy-] / ˈnɪərˌsaɪ tɪd, -ˈsaɪ- /
ADJECTIVE
myopic
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The Nearsighted Nine are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearsighted old Mother Anticoli was not sure at first whether it was really Celeste.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard-working poet who occasionally ventures into prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearsighted people should be especially careful to avoid eyestrain, and should not work by artificial light.

From Five Lectures on Blindness by Foley, Kate M.




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