narrow-sighted en · ADJ
Etymology
Compare narrow-minded and short-sighted.
Meanings
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Lacking perspective; Overly focused on one aspect.
Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but industry analysts surmise that one key factor in Crumbs's initial success was also the reason for its fall from glory: a narrow-sighted focus on the sale of a single product—those cupcakes.
2020, Emily Balcetis, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, page 140:In this perspective, chasing the truth about what category creates most jobs internally is narrow-sighted.
2006, Per Davidsson, Researching Entrepreneurship, page 171:But few of those who see that incongruity, know that it was dictated by the narrow-sighted frugality of the common council who were its building committee, and who determined that it would be useless to waste margle on the rear of the City-Hall, "since that side would only be seen by persons living in the suburbs."
1853, Andrew Jackson Downing ·, “The New-York Park”, in Rural Essays, page 148:And if I were capable of that narrow-sighted joy on Adam's behalf, I should still know he was not the man to feel it for himself: he would have shaken his head at such a sentiment, and said, “ Evil's evil, and sorrow's sorrow, and you can't alter its nature by wrapping it up in other words."
2003, Lisa Rodensky, The Crime in Mind, page 120:Those involved in producing food and fiber in the United States simply cannot withstand another round of narrow-sighted budget negotiations which leaves them in an even more financially precarious position.
1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget, Views and Estimates of Committees of the House, page 6:Presumably in such an approach it is not important to attempt to minimise the costs of “narrow-sighted rationalisation' and irrelevant or impossible to monitor the performance of a state investment company.
1983, Brian Hindley, State Investment Companies in Western Europe, page 23:
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