Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having protruding eyes.
- adj. Wide-eyed, as with astonishment or curiosity; agog.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having bulging or protruding eyes
Examples
“Z explains it over and over with bug-eyed exasperation, pushing up his glasses.”
“But the bug-eyed critter was cute, and Joy might like it, so I tossed it in the cart.”
“There are no bug-eyed groupies lying on the taupe calfskin sofas, nor any music to speak of echoing through the clean-lined industrial showroom, which features the latest subtle-hued collection.”
“AND, they shrieked even louder that the district must not close down the local jr high (in order to aggregate more children into a single location so that broader education could be offered tailored to the needs and interests of each individual child). never under estimate the non-linear nature of the results of screaming bug-eyed single mothers with limited information and rationality (and more children than money) shrieking about 'the children'.”
Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In ten years it would be run into the ground, full of bug-eyed meth freaks.”
“The designer's next iteration of the small, affordable car, in 1933, was called the Standard-Superior, and in it one can clearly see the distinctive beetle shape emerging—the bug-eyed headlights, the small, flat windscreen and the rounded crown line running from the roof to the tail end.”
“In Bollywood Hero, Kattan's diminutive stature and bug-eyed style cause a rift between neophyte Dancing Boy filmmakers Monty (Ali Fazal) and Priya (Pooja Kumar), who discover that casting and financing a romantic epic featuring the goofy Corky Romano star can be problematic.”
“Instead, the facade looks like a stack of bug-eyed glass pods.”
“His bug-eyed expressions and yowls of exasperation don't give us a jot of insight into his obtuse character.”
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“In the 1997 film (and not the much more subtle original Heinlein novel), The Rodger Young is a corvette piloted by the fresh-faced and bug-eyed Carmen Ibanez.”
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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GRE Words
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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