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mope-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (archaic) short-sighted
    • What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her! c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
    • Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests 1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink:

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most mope-eyed Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

purblind