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short-sighted

British  

adjective

  1. relating to or suffering from myopia

  2. lacking foresight

    a short-sighted plan

"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

Other Word Forms

  • short-sightedly adverb
  • short-sightedness noun

Example Sentences

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Saleh calls it "short-sighted" that the city could lose its charm to sprawling concrete.

From Barron's

Restaurant co-owner Ranjit Mathrani said he was asking the King to help save Veeraswamy "from extinction", and said not renewing the lease was "short-sighted".

From BBC

“They have really large numbers of Latinx students, but they also have large numbers of Black students and Asian students and low-income white students, too. I have to stress how short-sighted it is for the federal government to take this money away.”

From Los Angeles Times

Without naming the mayor directly, Landau rejected this strategy as short-sighted.

From Salon

"These policies are rather short-sighted."

From Barron's