purblind
Example Sentences
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There had been little in the contest coming towards the middle stages, even though the three judges had Joshua ahead at the halfway stage, one of them a purblind 5-1 up in rounds.
From The Guardian
The peculiar case of George Edalji — slightly fictionalized in Julian Barnes’s excellent novel “Arthur & George” — focused on a purblind young lawyer of South Asian ancestry accused of mutilating farm animals.
From Washington Post
It was a grave miscalculation, from one point of view, or, to put it less kindly, the result of purblind arrogance, yet Charles seems to have given the marriage his best shot.
From New York Times
Mr. Obama, note, pays this price for climate gestures that were purely symbolic, having no impact on climate, and especially purblind given gas’s role in reducing U.S.
“Inside, fluorescent lamps shine on the beer girl posters and the old-time photographs and the purblind man selling toilet paper by the ladies’ lavatory,” he wrote in one article.
From New York Times
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