purblind

Example Sentences

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The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010

"I discovered Asia in 1878," he says, with the air of one who had hitherto led a purblind, provincial existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bette Davis, a peppery, small-town librarian, moves like Lady Bountiful among the worshipful peasants in her reading room, opening their purblind eyes to the treasure trove on the shelves around them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ray Seldomridge Monrovia, Calif. The space program is the only Government agency working for our future; we shouldn't be so purblind to our children's needs as to cut its funds short.

From Time Magazine Archive

They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood