Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sightless manner.

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  • adverb In a sightless manner; blindly.

Etymologies

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sightless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Bouncing and rolling, the head of Ryk Kydd came to a stop and stared sightlessly back at Daun.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Bouncing and rolling, the head of Ryk Kydd came to a stop and stared sightlessly back at Daun.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Leah lay on her back, staring sightlessly up at the canopy, fingering the stone that hung from her neck.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • So the Met's wonderful ménage-a-trois "Denial of St. Peter" (1610) was apparently painted "by a man who could barely hold a brush"; and the self-portrait included in the "Martyrdom of St. Ursula" (1599-1600) "stares sightlessly into space."

    The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011

  • Leah lay on her back, staring sightlessly up at the canopy, fingering the stone that hung from her neck.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • Countless broken and misshapen faces stared sightlessly down at her from their perches along marble shelves lining the four tall walls.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • His eyes stared sightlessly past her, focused on something above her.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Cloudy brown eyes gazed sightlessly up at the heavens.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010

  • Then it rolled onto its belly and scrabbled sightlessly across the floor like some kind of enormous, bloody worm, trying desperately to find Brynna.

    Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

  • It shone brightly from behind the orb-eyed bust of an ancient Greek warrior, which stared sightlessly down from its place above a set of ornately carved double doors.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

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