beady
beadlike; small, globular, and glittering: beady eyes.
covered with or full of beads.
Origin of beady
1Other words from beady
- bead·i·ly, adverb
- bead·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby beady
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How to use beady in a sentence
Common wisdom holds that this long-tailed rodent will snatch your diamond rings and gold watches, your loose change and car keys, and hoard them in glistening stockpiles like some miniature, beady-eyed dragon.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe went outside to her yard and saw hundreds of beady-eyed insects enrobed in a thick shell of gold emerging out of the ground and crawling up the trees.
The Brood X cicadas are here — and yes, there’s an app for that | Tanya Basu | June 3, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewPavlovic submitted a sketch that captured the creature’s spooky aesthetic, right down to its beady eyes and the fabric-like swirls of its outfit.
How a mythical backwoods monster saved a struggling West Virginia glass company | Molly Born | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostHe would speak too close to you, his voice a monotone rattle sliding out from his endlessly smirking mouth, his beady dead eyes staring from under bushy eyebrows and over a nose like a hatchet.
It’s the stuttering, beady-eyed performances of some of the characters.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | Vox
He agreed, and I could almost feel his beady little eyes going ‘KERCHING!’
A tiny spaniel lay beside the fire, his beady black eyes following the nervous movements of the master of the house.
Dope | Sax RohmerBut as he turned toward the door she caught a glimpse of a glossy black mustache, and two beady black eyes.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonThen its cold, beady eyes were fixed on Dick and it uttered a vicious hiss.
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)For out of the box glided a real, live snake, fully three feet long, and with beady and dangerous looking eyes!
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)Don't thet beady-eyed greaser's gall make you want to spit all over yourself?
The Man of the Forest | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for beady
/ (ˈbiːdɪ) /
small, round, and glittering: used esp of eyes
resembling or covered with beads
Derived forms of beady
- beadily, adverb
- beadiness, noun
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