bleared

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The houses are mostly low wooden structures with dirty windowpanes or gaping holes like bleared and sightless eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Quicklime had seared the youth's, cataract bleared the oldster's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only bad writers literally hold nothing sacred; the best of the black humorists hold some things too sacred to be bleared with hypocrisy or smeared with prurience.

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Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil'-And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë