short-sighted
Britishadjective
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relating to or suffering from myopia
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lacking foresight
a short-sighted plan
Other Word Forms
- short-sightedly adverb
- short-sightedness noun
Example Sentences
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Saleh calls it "short-sighted" that the city could lose its charm to sprawling concrete.
From Barron's
Restaurant co-owner Ranjit Mathrani said he was asking the King to help save Veeraswamy "from extinction", and said not renewing the lease was "short-sighted".
From BBC
“They have really large numbers of Latinx students, but they also have large numbers of Black students and Asian students and low-income white students, too. I have to stress how short-sighted it is for the federal government to take this money away.”
From Los Angeles Times
Without naming the mayor directly, Landau rejected this strategy as short-sighted.
From Salon
"These policies are rather short-sighted."
From Barron's
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