Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or habit of looking asquint; strabismus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
squint , v.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
squint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having eyes half closed in order to see better
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Examples
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Margaret, at the flattering address of her ladyship, let fall her eyelids, and timidly lifted them again; and while she endeavoured to express, by her eyes, every thing that was sweet and lovely, she gave them a turn very much like that defect which we call squinting; and smiling, as she was forming a speech to express her gratitude for the honour done her, she shewed the ruins of her mouth, and Lady Isabella with great difficulty suppressed her laughter.
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I wonder what the purpose is in squinting really hard when you pray.
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I call it "squinting"-you will have your own term.
The New Yorker Sasha Frere-Jones 2011
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They studied Bicyclus anynana, known as the squinting bush brown butterfly because of the eye-like patterns on their wings.
Colder Weather Causes Female Butterflies To Become Aggressive Mates AP 2011
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They studied Bicyclus anynana, known as the squinting bush brown butterfly because of the eye-like patterns on their wings.
Colder Weather Causes Female Butterflies To Become Aggressive Mates AP 2011
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Secondly, the screens are small enough to make reading small type on Websites an exercise in squinting.
Mini-Laptops Fuel PC Sales Growth - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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They studied Bicyclus anynana, known as the squinting bush brown butterfly because of the eye-like patterns on their wings.
The Seattle Times 2011
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They studied Bicyclus anynana, known as the squinting bush brown butterfly because of the eye-like patterns on their wings.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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They studied Bicyclus anynana, known as the squinting bush brown butterfly because of the eye-like patterns on their wings.
SFGate: Top News Stories By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID 2011
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In fact, if browsing the Internet from a desktop is regarded as a scanning activity, than browsing the Internet through the adaptive lens of a mobile browser might best be described as a squinting activity.
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