short-sight

Just hope your short-sight decision doesn't come and bite you in the rear-end and realized you've been hit in the face with 'The Sacred A$$ Paddle for your bone head move.....

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It already transmits the short-sight caused by so modern an art as watchmaking, but so fails to transmit the long-practised art of seeing (as it does of walking and talking) that vision is worse than useless to a man until he gradually acquires the necessary but non-transmitted associations of sensation and idea by his own experience.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

Where had he got his short-sight and his deafness when he suddenly began to see and hear with difficulty, and, frowning majestically, insisted on people speaking louder and coming closer to the table?

The Party 1917

Mr. BERNARD SHAW said that another way was to induce publishers to issue new and amended editions of those popular writers who had been betrayed by impulsiveness or short-sight into eulogies of England.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Various 1898

Sir Wilfrid looked down the drawing-room, to see the famous War Minister coming slowly through the well-filled but not crowded room, stopping now and then to exchange a greeting or a farewell, and much hampered, as it seemed, in so doing, by a pronounced and disfiguring short-sight.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

But what astonishes me is the short-sight of the statesmen of the south, who do not see that the question of questions is the religious question, and even now do not recognize that a liberal state is wholly incompatible with an anti-liberal religion, and almost equally incompatible with the absence of religion.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

Where had he got his short-sight and his deafness when he suddenly began to see and hear with difficulty, and, frowning majestically, insisted on people speaking louder and coming closer to the table?

The Party Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Still it would be a sign of narrowness and short-sight not to discern the sincerity, the movement, the real meaning underneath all that profusion of glaring colour.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

Nor can this be traced either to short-sight or over-sight.

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

Another numerous class is that of which the members could only plead their physical disability -- such as deafness, short-sight, malformation of the hand or foot, and, in some instances, inveterate and incurable dipsomania, proved on the oath of the wives of the unfortunate delinquents.

Illustrations of the War in America 1863