purblind

Example Sentences

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The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010

A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ray Seldomridge Monrovia, Calif. The space program is the only Government agency working for our future; we shouldn't be so purblind to our children's needs as to cut its funds short.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with moving objects.

From Time Magazine Archive

They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood