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.

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squint-eyed British  

adjective

1. having a squint

2. looking sidelong

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Etymology

Origin of squint-eyed

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

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

With this squint-eyed rewrite of Tennyson, rabble-rousing Senator Gerald P. Nye last week keynoted the New Isolationism.

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