cross-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of cross-eyed
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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He has brown hair, brown eyes, and is cross-eyed, according to his family.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
When you play a dead person, if you go a little bit cross-eyed and you don't focus, that works to keep your eyes from following movement.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022
A corgi car, a chrome car, a map car, a cross-eyed duck car — the show’s imaginative turns were always surprising.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
The first doctor deemed him cross-eyed and suggested surgery.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021
Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair the texture of candyfloss, he wore a cap whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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