Definitions
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- adverb With short sight;
myopically . - adverb In a manner that fails to consider the
big picture or future effects of an action or decision.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I was a toddler, my mother would read me to sleep every day from a book about Skylab, which had been shortsightedly allowed to burn up in the atmosphere a few months before I was born.
Konstantin Kakaes: Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space Konstantin Kakaes 2012
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Craig is a features writer and crime-fiction reviewer; in fact he is alreadywriting for Euro Crime - here'shis recent review of Mark Billingham's Bloodline - I just shortsightedly hadn't noticed thathe also has a blog.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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They struck him as alien, built out of some kind of “cosmic metal,” shortsightedly unwilling to compromise even in their own interest.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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When I was a toddler, my mother would read me to sleep every day from a book about Skylab, which had been shortsightedly allowed to burn up in the atmosphere a few months before I was born.
Konstantin Kakaes: Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space Konstantin Kakaes 2012
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They struck him as alien, built out of some kind of “cosmic metal,” shortsightedly unwilling to compromise even in their own interest.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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When I was a toddler, my mother would read me to sleep every day from a book about Skylab, which had been shortsightedly allowed to burn up in the atmosphere a few months before I was born.
Konstantin Kakaes: Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space Konstantin Kakaes 2012
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The measure...shortsightedly cuts $150 million from the Teacher Incentive Fund TIF...
Wonkbook: Our last chance to stabilize the housing market 2011
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The measure...shortsightedly cuts $150 million from the Teacher Incentive Fund TIF...
Wonkbook: Our last chance to stabilize the housing market 2011
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When I was a toddler, my mother would read me to sleep every day from a book about Skylab, which had been shortsightedly allowed to burn up in the atmosphere a few months before I was born.
Konstantin Kakaes: Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space Konstantin Kakaes 2012
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When I was a toddler, my mother would read me to sleep every day from a book about Skylab, which had been shortsightedly allowed to burn up in the atmosphere a few months before I was born.
Konstantin Kakaes: Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space Konstantin Kakaes 2012
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