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View definitions for short-sightedly

short-sightedly

adverb as in foolishly

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Ambrose Spike squinted short-sightedly down at the darkened woodland floor.

He blinked short-sightedly as he ruminated.

A growing body of work suggests that, although we want to act on knowledge, it is our nature to react instinctively and short-sightedly.

From Salon

“It’s certainly remarkable how short-sightedly and irrationally both act,” the magazine wrote.

Leaders and their aides tend to short-sightedly favour enhancing the leader's power while they are the beneficiaries, without thought to the same powers passing to a radically different leader and regardless of the folly of concentrating power in the hands of any one individual and his acolytes.

From BBC

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

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