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Answer for the clue "Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight? ", 9 letters:
squinting

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Word definitions for squinting in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who squints. vb. (present participle of squint English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes" [syn: squinched ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squint \Squint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting .] To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Some can squint when they will. --Bacon. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed. ...

Usage examples of squinting.

Still, as the human bartender bustled through the busy streets, sun hood up, squinting, he was bothered by that droid who had accosted him.

Dazed, she staggered against the tree, squinting through blurry eyes at the monster only ten feet away.

Gerry Brell came into the light wearing a pink quilted robe with big white lapels, her blonde hair tousled, eyes squinting in the light.

It seemed strangely incongruous and almost comical to Brewster that such an imposing and fearsome-looking giant should be so deferential to a man who barely stood higher than his kneecaps, and yet Bloody Bob stood there, squinting down and shuffling his foot in the dirt and looking very much abashed.

He rose and walked around the brindled heifer, squatting down and squinting at her tail.

The characteristics of this form of idiocy are an enlarged thyroid gland constituting a goitre or bronchocele, a high-arched palate, dwarfed stature, squinting eyes, sallow complexion, small legs, conical head, large mouth, and indistinct speech.

To our left is Microform Services, the dark grotto where professors and grad students huddle in clusters of microfilm machines, squinting at panels of light.

Doctor Romanelli shivered slightly in spite of the heat and turned to the north, squinting at the bristling, tangled maze of whitewashed walls and brightly colored enamelled domes that was the new section of the city, which had grown up like lush riverside vegetation around the highway, called the Mustee, that connected the Citadel with the ancient Harbor of Boolak.

I bent, squinting up into the pharyngeal cavity, but it was too dark to see much there.

They found themselves organizing, propagandizing, podium- pounding, persuading, touring, negotiating, posing for publicity photos, submitting to interviews, squinting in the limelight as they tried a tentative, but growingly sophisticated, buck-and-wing upon the public stage.

Squinting out into sunlight past the edge of the drapes, he had a view of sandy embankments studded with some desert weeds, and supporting swooping concrete ramps that led up to a highway.

Terent stood there, his ruddy face scrunched and squinting inside its mail coif.

The curtain inside was bunched a little towards the centre and by squinting slantways they were able to see into the room beyond.

Travis held the Squeezer in front of him, squinting, and he turned the wheel.

The pain came again, and Teasle bent forward on the bench, squinting at a dark oil stain in the wood floor.