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

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squint-eyed

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

Every few hours the coaches emerge squint-eyed to fill their cups from an endless river of black coffee and scan their dog-eared yellow pads with notes spilling off the edges.

From Time Magazine Archive

He couldn’t see who they were, and his face had the squint-eyed look it always had when he took aim with a marble.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers