blinkered
narrow-minded and subjective; unwilling to understand another viewpoint: When in the Oval Office, Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government.
having blinkers on; fitted with blinkers: a blinkered racehorse.
Origin of blinkered
1Other words from blinkered
- un·blink·ered, adjective
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How to use blinkered in a sentence
This blinkered view of nature as a man’s world was conceived and promulgated by Victorian men who imposed their values and world view on animals, she says.
Lucy Cooke’s new book ‘Bitch’ busts myths about female animals | Erika Engelhaupt | June 14, 2022 | Science NewsDoing so reflects a blinkered understanding of how inequality operates and perpetuates itself.
She alludes a lot to ambition and wanting fame, the kind of hard-nailed, blinkered ambition that drives actors and actresses.
It’s Not Just the Vaccines. Jenny McCarthy’s New Book Offers More ‘Lessons’ | Tim Teeman | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, he carried on with his blinkered views and remained an isolationist.
“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life | Jacob Heilbrunn | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTParadoxically, the money boom engendered a religion boom—and religion of a particularly blinkered and aggressive sort.
I trudge along like a traveller between high hedgerows; my heart is blinkered so that I am scarcely aware of landscapes.
Carry On | Coningsby DawsonBut Telal was not so easily to be blinkered, and kept to his first judgment.
Travels in Arabia | Bayard TaylorThese blinkered letters, with only writing and no touch of live hands, convey so little.
Carry On | Coningsby DawsonThe blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced.
The Day's Work, Volume 1 | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for blinkered
/ (ˈblɪŋkəd) /
considering only a narrow point of view
(of a horse) wearing blinkers
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