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squint-eyed

American  
[skwint-ahyd] / ˈskwɪntˌaɪd /

adjective

  1. affected with or characterized by strabismus.

  2. looking obliquely or askance.

  3. manifesting a malicious, envious, or spiteful attitude or disposition.

    squint-eyed with vengefulness and blind to reason.


squint-eyed British  

adjective

  1. having a squint

  2. looking sidelong

"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 squint-eyed

First recorded in 1580–90

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In another sense, by speaking up for a judicial branch that has absorbed one body blow after another in recent months, in stoic squint-eyed black-robed fashion, she did nothing but level the playing field.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2016

We look at them looking, and we look at the fruit, too, as if the squint-eyed girl, Laval and ourselves might each find the answer to some mystery there.

From The Guardian Sep. 27, 2010

A late-fiftysomething, squint-eyed behind owlish spectacles, managerially dressed—Schmidt’s dour appearance concealed a machinelike analyticity.

From Newsweek

At 51, Buffett looks like an Islamorada bonefishing guide: stocky and squint-eyed, with seaworthy legs and skin that's leathery from the sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

The southern travellers had lost several horses and blamed the innkeeper loudly, until it became known that one of their own number had also disappeared in the night, none other than Bill Ferny’s squint-eyed companion.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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