Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Short-sighted; purblind; stupid. Also
mopsy-eyed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shortsighted; purblind.
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- adjective archaic
short-sighted ;purblind
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Examples
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Is not Cupid, that first father of all religion, is not he stark blind, that he can not himself distinguish of colors, so he would make us as mope-eyed in judging falsely of all love concerns, and wheedle us into a thinking that we are always in the right?
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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