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hawk-eyed

American  
[hawk-ahyd] / ˈhɔkˌaɪd /

adjective

  1. having very keen sight.

    a hawk-eyed guard.


hawk-eyed British  

adjective

  1. having extremely keen sight

  2. vigilant, watchful, or observant

    hawk-eyed scrutiny

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hawk-eyed

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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Supervising the proceedings were stern-faced male and female guards with the hawk-eyed looks of chaperones at a high school dance.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2022

Of course now their alleged ruse appears to have been rumbled by a hawk-eyed reporter from The Athletic, they might not chance it.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2022

So I’ll ask Trollope and Jane Austen, two hawk-eyed comedians of manners who’d be sure to hit it off.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020

Holmes's real-life model was Doyle's professor, hawk-eyed diagnostician Joseph Bell; writers from Émile Gaboriau to Edgar Allen Poe offered fictional prototypes.

From Nature • Jan. 24, 2017

Rahel watched hawk-eyed to try and gauge how much Ammu loved Sophie Mol, but couldn’t.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy