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

If anyone can answer all the questions without finding something to own up to, Father Wilson thinks that he must be either "a saint or spiritually purblind."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Whence had these strange and noisy creatures come, creatures whose eyes were purblind, whose wings had never sufficed to raise them over the hen hutch fence?

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