glassy-eyed
[ glas-ee-ahyd, glah-see- ]
adjective
having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.
Origin of glassy-eyed
1First 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 HopperSo 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 BarrieI lay there and looked sort of glassy-eyed, as if I was awake, but kinda hypnotized, you know.
The Room with the Tassels | Carolyn WellsAnd just then Jane Hubbard came downstairs, shepherding before her a pale and glassy-eyed Bream.
The Girl on the Boat | Pelham Grenville WodehouseI had a positive abhorrence for the painted, bedizened, dead-faced, glassy-eyed Egeria of Peter Ivanovitch.
Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad
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