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- adjective
myopic , suffering frommyopia
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Examples
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MR. MAGOO: THE TELEVISION COLLECTION 1960-1977 $79.97; Shout -- The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is a curious character.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Harry Potter Finale Arrives, Now Where's Pottermore? Michael Giltz 2011
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MR. MAGOO: THE TELEVISION COLLECTION 1960-1977 $79.97; Shout -- The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is a curious character.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Harry Potter Finale Arrives, Now Where's Pottermore? Michael Giltz 2011
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He was about my age, less hair, near-sighted like me I guessed from his glasses.
The View From Cezanne's Studio Con Chapman 2011
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If businessmen wanting their cash get temporally near-sighted, climate scientists, lost in their graphs of millennia, get farsighted, forgetting that sometimes you have to duck bullets -- and they don't call it the 'methane gun hypothesis' for nothing!
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (Second Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame Marshall Fine 2011
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I grew up as a skinny, pimply, near-sighted gay kid in urban Philadelphia.
Gary Cohan: The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids Gary Cohan 2010
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I grew up as a skinny, pimply, near-sighted gay kid in urban Philadelphia.
Gary Cohan: The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids Gary Cohan 2010
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I grew up as a skinny, pimply, near-sighted gay kid in urban Philadelphia.
Gary Cohan: The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids Gary Cohan 2010
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I grew up as a skinny, pimply, near-sighted gay kid in urban Philadelphia.
Gary Cohan: The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids Gary Cohan 2010
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If businessmen wanting their cash get temporally near-sighted, climate scientists, lost in their graphs of millennia, get farsighted, forgetting that sometimes you have to duck bullets -- and they don't call it the 'methane gun hypothesis' for nothing!
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (Second Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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