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cyclopean

[sahy-kluh-pee-uhn, sahy-klop-ee-uhn] / ˌsaɪ kləˈpi ən, saɪˈklɒp i ən /


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Like the obsidian vaults of my drowned Cyclopean city, his positions are blurred and fuzzy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

Some sort of gun-metal gray canister has been squashed and made useless, its flattened valve staring out like a Cyclopean eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2015

But it was hard to see them – the pink splotches, the Cyclopean dolls – and resist the idea that Hornby had stepped down from exemplary model-making and into a bucket of tat.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Instead, in the area where their faces should be, Wenlock and Mandeville each present us with a cold, steel panel punctuated only by an assessing, Cyclopean eye.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2012

He stopped, squinting at me with Cyclopean irritation.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison