bug-eyed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of bug-eyed
Example Sentences
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She is presented as bug-eyed and insane, as Mrs. Lovett asking if you wouldn’t like another piece of pie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
But his unwillingness to be a bug-eyed lunatic has hurt his fundraising numbers.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
But Durkee casts doubt, wondering why those closest to Shakespeare would select this cartoonish picture — “the bug-eyed bloke with the pecan head” — for such a worthy tribute.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023
The bumbling arrival is looked at askance by a row of medallions featuring portraits of Indigenous chiefs, as well as by a line of carved, bug-eyed coconuts.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
I trudged perhaps a hundred feet up the hill, then stopped, bug-eyed, breathing hard, heart kabooming alarmingly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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