SHORT-SIGHTED


Meaning of SHORT-SIGHTED in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

'Are you short-sighted then?' 'Yeah, can't see a thing without my lenses.'

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.

His short-sighted eyes blinked at the stranger in his kitchen.

In other words, he is a longer-term investor than the short-sighted institutions.

It must be confusing and I have no answer to the criticism, except to blame the clearly short-sighted attitude on management.

Nevertheless, he is not so short-sighted that he can not catch a butterfly between his fingers.

She was short-sighted a could not see into the auditorium.

She was being stupidly short-sighted in snapping at this man.

The auction houses quite wisely retreated, leaving specialist dealers bemoaning what they alleged were short-sighted policies.

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