Definitions

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  • adjective of eyes Lacking pupils.

Etymologies

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pupil +‎ -less

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Examples

  • And the strange, pupilless eyes were a deep and glowing amber.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Their pupilless eyes glowed Unseleighe red, and they seemed to know what he was thinking-and be laughing at him.

    Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Their pupilless eyes glowed Unseleighe red, and they seemed to know what he was thinking — and be laughing at him.

    Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Emmanuel didn't smile, but a faint light seemed to burn in the black depths of his pupilless eyes.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • They were thrice the size of the human eye and triangular, the apex of the angle upward; black as jet, pupilless, filled with tiny, leaping red flames,

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • It was he who had theorized that the pupilless orbs were each and every pair subtly positioned so that they all focused on approximately the same spot - the one where Cullen's crew was presently engaged in exploration.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • It was he who had theorized that the pupilless orbs were each and every pair subtly positioned so that they all focused on approximately the same spot - the one where Cullen's crew was presently engaged in exploration.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • They were huge, monsters, like a wolf in a nightmare: four feet at the shoulder, with ivory fangs as long as his thumb and pupilless red eyes that glowed with the light of hellfire.

    Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • No, this living emblem of evolutionary perversity wasn't merely hairy, it was sprinkled with purple spots-an armpit with a rash-and its pupilless white eyes rolled about the brow of its cephalothorax like mothballs in a lapidary.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • No, this living emblem of evolutionary perversity wasn't merely hairy, it was sprinkled with purple spots-an armpit with a rash-and its pupilless white eyes rolled about the brow of its cephalothorax like mothballs in a lapidary.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

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