Thesaurus / short-sighted

short-sighted

How to use short-sighted in a sentence

Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.

The apprehensions, however, which were entertained by a few short-sighted people were unfounded.

Judicious regulations have put a stop to such selfish and short-sighted patronage.

NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT

He peered up at me with pleasant, short-sighted eyes while returning my salute.

DROSSHENRY SETON MERRIMAN

She, with a delicacy that charmed my short-sighted folly, begged that they might go through my hands.

That has been tried by short-sighted rulers in former times, and has utterly failed.

You may even hear a short-sighted labor leader say the same thing, but you know very well, my friend, that they are wrong.

He was denied the opportunity of studying the machinery and watching the processes by a short-sighted jealousy.

He is a short-sighted politician indeed, who utters a sweeping denunciation of party distinctions.

Yet even a short-sighted person might easily have involuntarily read the address, so extremely legible was it.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985