squint-eyed

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    sidelong glances
    her eyes with their misted askance look
  2. affected by strabismus
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How To Use squint-eyed In A Sentence

  • Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • Although the child squints, it must not be called squint-eyed, but love-eyed, and even a wart must be thought to become it. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost
  • With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
  • But mostly change is subtle, almost delicate, and it is viewed most clearly not from the stand or drawing room but with a squint-eyed look from across the net.
  • Four marines emerged on deck with a swarthy looking, squint-eyed pirate, his arms and legs in irons.
  • I marched up to the porch, where a squint-eyed man asked, from around the cigar he was roughly smoking, if there was something he could help me with.
  • He was a short, fat, squint-eyed, florid-faced, devious drone whose profession was administering linctus to racehorses: the kind of disaster only the Greens could rely on. Two For The Lions
  • Squint-eyed and cunning, its tongue split like a wishbone, the canebrake sulls up, cursive spine and the diamonds in spiral like genetic code, and Joby frets the Stratocaster, its plastic the color of a salted ham. The Best American Poetry 2008
  • His warder was a dumb dog, a squint-eyed Cerberus with what Count Victor for once condemned as a tribal gibberish for his language, so that he was incapable of understanding what was said to him even if he had been willing to converse. Doom Castle
  • That bony, squint-eyed, curly-haired little sneak, attractive?
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