evil eye
noun
a look expressing hostility, stern disapproval, jealousy, etc..
evil eyes
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pluralof evil eye.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“It’s fun,” she said of the custom hearts, cherries, pink octopuses and evil eyes she quilts and appliques on to sweatshirts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
Magic and science, evil eyes and saints’ lives: these things repose side by side in a labyrinth of imagery and icons and memory.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2015
To read significance into these clusters is to succumb to primitive thinking, a world of evil eyes and cosmic conspiracies.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014
Good-luck things, my evil eyes to protect me, things I need, photographs, all my papers, my mail, things I have to read ... my life.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2014
No one even looked at me with evil eyes or called me a name!
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
