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glassy-eyed
[ glas-ee-ahyd, glah-see- ]
adjective
- having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glassy-eyed1
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Example Sentences
He sat there a moment, glassy-eyed, then rose with a trembling effort and groped aft to the cabin.
So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.
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.
I had a positive abhorrence for the painted, bedizened, dead-faced, glassy-eyed Egeria of Peter Ivanovitch.
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