What is "short-sighted"

Usage examples of "short-sighted".

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine than to prevent them by regimen.

Juniko felt even more scathing of the short-sighted biologists who were enthralled by the restricting concept of cloning future Shakespeares and other geniuses, which the Tator said he was willing to have done in all instances where it would serve the public interest.

And yet that short-sighted man needed the Chaplain more than any other member, perhaps, for he generally sat with his feet on his desk, eating raw turnips, during the morning prayer.

And finally, in considering the emancipation of the serfs- short-sighted though it was, for what should those underlings so reliant upon Exalted protection and guidance do with their new freedom?

He was rather short-sighted, and his features in repose bore a somewhat melancholy expression.

Privy Councillor Wurmt, Chancelier d'Ambassade, was rather short-sighted.

But when men think that these beggarly contrivances may supply a resource for the evils which result from breaking up the foundations of public order, and from causing or suffering the principles of property to be subverted, they will, in the ruin of their country, leave a melancholy and lasting monument of the effect of preposterous politics and presumptuous, short-sighted, narrow-minded wisdom.

Then you know what he's like -- an elderly dodderer well over seventy, short-sighted, amiable, a typically absent-minded professor in every respect but one.

And so short-sighted he'd bought a horse from Jack Slacker, who went around all the horse fairs' bargain bins and sold winded old screws that dropped a leg before you'd got home.

And so short-sighted hed bought a horse from Jack Slacker, who went around all the horse fairs bargain bins and sold winded old screws that dropped a leg before youd got home.

Ted Pitts, short-sighted, clear-headed, bi-lingual in English and algebra.

I noticed that even when woken in the middle of the night he looked as if he'd just brushed that gleaming black hair ten seconds previously: I always woke up with mine looking like a half-dried mop, a replica of the current feminine urchin cut, the one achieved by a short-sighted lunatic armed with garden shears.

Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.

Behind the short-sighted governments that divide and mismanage human affairs, a real force for world unity and world order exists and grows.