glassy-eyed

[ glas-ee-ahyd, glah-see- ]
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adjective
  1. having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.

Origin of glassy-eyed

1
First recorded in 1890–95

Words Nearby glassy-eyed

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How to use glassy-eyed in a sentence

  • He sat there a moment, glassy-eyed, then rose with a trembling effort and groped aft to the cabin.

    Caybigan | James Hopper
  • So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.

    Peter and Wendy | James Matthew Barrie
  • I lay there and looked sort of glassy-eyed, as if I was awake, but kinda hypnotized, you know.

  • And just then Jane Hubbard came downstairs, shepherding before her a pale and glassy-eyed Bream.

    The Girl on the Boat | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  • I had a positive abhorrence for the painted, bedizened, dead-faced, glassy-eyed Egeria of Peter Ivanovitch.

    Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad