nearsighted

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But I'm nearsighted, and the goggles interfered with my vision so that I almost cut a fingertip off.

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  • Awkward and nearsighted, she had never cut an attractive figure, and as she had aged she had come to see herself as others saw her. —  FSF,January2008
  • He was doing his Al Capone, but it was coming out as a nearsighted Lou Costello. —  Dancing in the Dark
  • Bison are often nearsighted, but this bull was completely blind. —  AHMM,March2008
  • She spends all of her time scuttling like a nearsighted crab from one domestic disaster to another. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • And now we find them: one twenty-eight, big, nearsighted, theoretical, blundering; and the other twenty-one, slight, active, graceful, practical. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
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