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blinkered
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Word definitions for blinkered in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in the figurative sense, 1867, from horses wearing blinkers to limit the range of their vision (see blinker ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Characterized by blinkers or blinders. 2 (context figuratively English) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one. v (en-past of: blinker )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a brilliant but blinkered scientist EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But not, as the blinkered writer of that article implied, necessarily her own independent choice. ▪ Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its ...
Usage examples of blinkered.
The rider had made a blinkered bird turn with foot signals, and she had never seen that done.
He would have seen a bat being thrown from in there, and by the time he turned around to mount, WindStriker had been blinkered and unable to react.
Having no shackle, he had to leave the bird blinkered, and the scarlet comb throbbed angrily.
Dostoevsky waged with the representatives of Russian Westernism, unable to comprehend the treasures of their own culture because blinkered by European ideas of decorum and outmoded literary standards.
I hated the neighborhood, the pettiness of it, the closeted, cloistered, blinkered, racist, philistine, ghettoized narrowness of Queens and environs.
He'd actually seemed to believe she enjoyed the way the newsies hung about her like vultures, and he'd looked astounded when she'd expressed her opinion (with rather more precision and vigor than diplomacy) of him, his "analyses," and the batch of intellectually myopic, ideologically blinkered, and ethically crippled mental defectives for whom he produced his carefully tailored version of the war's events rather than taking the opportunity to play the "woman in the know" game.
Yet it was Austerity, and nowhere else, that attracted and became home to the austere, to the fearful, to the blinkered, to those seeking refuge in cold, unaesthetic, morose little worlds, where they could properly express their indignation and lack of comprehension at what had become of the human race.
To keep things from dissolving into a bloody melee, the Striders had to be blindfolded most of the time and carefully blinkered the rest.
He had pictured this from the moment he'd walked onto the track and seen that the new right-side trace horse on Crescens's team in the sixth lane wasn't blinkered.
Are you so gagged and blinkered by your all-consuming and wholly misguided sense of patriotism, by your blind allegiance to a discredited royalty that your myopic eyes are so reduced to a ten-degree field of tunnel vision that you have no concept of the three hundred and fifty degree of peripheral vision that lies beyond?