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Wild-eyed

adjective

Appearing extremely agitated.

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic. Synonyms: quixotic, romantic. "A romantic disregard for money" , "A wild-eyed dream of a world state"

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"Wild-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... and within a dingy, underground room, hemmed in by walls of stone, and dimly lighted by a flickering lamp, a body of wild-eyed, desperate men were plighting an oath to murder the ...

— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum

... later a wild-eyed, sweating pony tore through the desert town at a run. Her rider slid to the ground as the liveryman ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... centuries! To where a naked, shivering score, Snatched from their haunts across the seas, Stood, wild-eyed, on ...

— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)

... worshipped. But silence, like a pall, did all enfold, And the inhabitants were turn'd to stone — Yea, stone the very heart of every one! Once to a rich man I this tale re-told. "Stone hearts! A traveller's myth!" — he turn'd aside, As Hunger begg'd, pale-featured and wild-eyed. ...

— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens

... have to explain, a couple of times, and in words of one syllable, that what we have seen didn't really happen, because if he doesn't, the next morning half the twelve-year-old kids in the country will be rushing wild-eyed into school to slip the teacher the real inside about the discovery of America. By the time he gets that done, he'll be able to mumble a couple of generalities about vast and incalculable effects, and then it'll be time to tell the public about Widgets, the really ...

— Crossroads of Destiny • Henry Beam Piper

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