squint
verb (used without object)
to look with the eyes partly closed.
squintingly
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a word derived from
squint.
Example Sentences
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“Though at times squintingly dark, his New Mexico scrub and skylines are distractingly pleasing,” Catsoulis wrote.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
The odds of sustainable peace and prosperity--at least in the perspective of history--are squintingly thin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tone carried a question and The Thinking Machine turned squintingly upon Dollie.
From The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle
The majority are those blinded by enthusiasm in their youth, and who never recover sight; there are others who have preserved one eye, and see all squintingly.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote
