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Meanings of squint-eyed in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sidelong"
Examples for "sidelong"
1
He was casting sidelong glances in the direction of the drawing room.
2
Then it happened that she glanced sidelong, through the open south door.
3
But the little god looking sidelong was mute in his grey regard.
4
The young royalists were laughing and casting sidelong glances at the new-comers.
5
Persephone freezes in place and glances sidelong at the Hand of Glory.
1
Every year, we squint at Forbesmagazine's list of best-value actors and wonder.
2
The inventors of this fluted window succeeded in making the heavens squint.
3
If you squint and look at him another way, he's obviously Hitler.
4
Before he left the chart-room Mayo took a squint at the barometer.
5
I might as well take a squint at myself in the glass.
1
As the world's largest democracy, India looks askance at Russia's authoritarian system.
2
Looking askance at the world is what just might set Asa apart.
3
He looked askance and discontentedly at Graydon during dinner in the evening.
4
By the open gate the farmer stood eying his new material askance.
5
There were many looking askance at me at court, I assure you.
1
The money comes gushing in early and the limelight makes them squinty.
2
The squinty-eyed boy looked to be a couple years older than Nick.
3
She didn't recognize him either, with that scarred face and squinty look.
4
Sabito squatted down to examine it, peering at it squinty-eyed from different angles.
5
Is Olivia's squinty earnestness beginning to feel like a one-note performance?
1
Lady Bassett drew back, and eyed her askant with amazement and terror.
2
They went up, hand in hand, and often looked askant upon the road.
3
Denys looked askant at Gerard, and not liking the theme, shook it off.
4
Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
5
The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire.
1
When he has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
2
The lights come up, he blinks, eyes asquint.
3
I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.
4
Orson swallowed, eyes asquint.
5
And he to me, All of these were so asquint in mind in the first life that they made no spending there with measure.
Usage of squint-eyed in English
1
Except for one new squint-eyed stableboy, the household had not grown.
2
O greatness of spirit no greater than that of the squint-eyed neighbour lady!
3
Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc.
4
Olyphant owns one the best squint-eyed stares in all of acting.
5
He was hollow-chested, squint-eyed, and rather shambling, but spry enough withal.
6
I'm not going to have that squint-eyed girl on the stage any more to-night.
7
I'm going to take that boat, retorted the squint-eyed bully.
8
But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed.
9
Confused, Jim stared squint-eyed at the Web page.
10
The servant-girl, stout, squint-eyed, and red-haired, ran out.
11
Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
12
You consarned, square-headed, stiff-legged, squint-eyed, lop-eared, four-flusher, you.
13
Staples was squint-eyed and studying the church.
14
The house doesn't look quite squint-eyed.
15
They are called "long-legged," "thin-legged," "squint-eyed," or "big-headed."
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The main problem seemed to be an unexpected breaking-in period, a fug of jet-lag, sun-shock and general squint-eyed confusion.