shortsighted
Example Sentences
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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” recounts how failures in political leadership—a blend of willful ignorance and shortsighted greed—can sow economic chaos.
“I do think that those who are thinking that way are a bit too shortsighted. They don’t really see the power of the technology.”
All these responses may seem cold or shortsighted.
From Salon
Yet it would be shortsighted to favor Treasurys because of the difference in these yields.
From MarketWatch
Gary Veldink, a Georgetown Township trustee, said he thinks a closure is shortsighted.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
