Shortsighted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHORTSIGHTED in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• lacking foresight
• unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
• lacking in foresight: a shortsighted plan.
• Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
• Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
• Having little regard for the future; heedless.
• lacking foresight or scope
• unable to see distant objects clearly
• not given careful consideration

Words related to SHORTSIGHTED

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Words that contain SHORTSIGHTED

shortsightedly25 shortsightednes23 shortsightedness24 shortsightednesses26

How to use SHORTSIGHTED in a sentence

• I must express an earnest hope that neither will any planters be short-sighted enough to urge such a theory on the present Governor, nor will the present Governor give ear to it.
• Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.
• The whole gradually prospered from the first, under every disadvantage and notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of the short-sighted and bigoted.
• By advice of short-sighted friends, grandma sent a very formal reply to the letter, and told us that she did not want Elitha to write again.
• Egotism, even in kings, has often narrow and short-sighted views.
• They were, as a rule, too shortsighted to see that the only permanent remedy for their troubles was their own absorption into a solid and powerful Union.
• It will, of course, be said that some of these traders were extremely short-sighted not to have had leases of premises that were so all-important to them.
• But it would be shortsighted to regard the matter in this way.
• But in their way they have been just as short-sighted.
• If we cannot find something, even at starting from the open door, to teach us about Why and How, we must be very short-sighted, or very shallow-hearted.
• I should caution young teachers against the short-sighted educational theories that are in the air to-day, and that definitely recommend this attitude.
• It is but a short-sighted policy to wait for the mending of matters that are bound to get worse.
• Literary despotism at least is short-sighted in its views, for the expedients it employs are certain of overturning themselves.
• In my own case, for instance, I have found that the left eye is very short-sighted, the sight of the right eye being of about the average range.
• Kay was a little like her in the face, only his violet eyes were short-sighted and he wore glasses.
• Other versions are either caricatures, or exaggerations, or misunderstandings, or shortsighted and surface readings.
• Fortunately, Madame Choucrou was both short-sighted and colour-blind.
• In colour dark, though he was not handsome, his face had a sort of dignity that compelled respect, but he was shortsighted too, and his nose was rather broad and flat.
• It seems to me shortsighted policy, but I cannot help myself.
• Too often our friendship is most short-sighted in this regard, and most hurtful to those we fervently desire to aid.
• It is easy to thrill to the seeming marvels of our own times, but only the short-sighted thinker believes in the perfection of present scientific progress.
• But despite the short-sighted protests of some citizens of St.
• But our humanity perceives from a level, and therefore a short-sighted point of view.
• The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also rendered good service to Zion.
• But what is that goal? and what the true way? My short-sighted eye is not able to discern it.
• The unskilled, pleasure-loving, short-sighted but ambitious girl, is apt to lose her sense of values, and to be an easy and sometimes very willing victim.
• But how short-sighted is human prudence? What was intended for her promotion, proved his death and her destruction.
• Poor, short-sighted, and even blind, victims of their own folly! They do not see that any work which is human service is honorable.
• Fred Walker had been as one short-sighted, who only sees things close at hand, but sees them clearly.
• The foolish and short-sighted die with fear, That they go nowhere, or they know not where.
• Never did a man in repute for statesmanship show himself more shortsighted.
• When he began, I was short-sighted enough to discourage him, and refused to co-operate with him.

Similar words containing SHORTSIGHT without suffix ed

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