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Beady-eyed   /bˈidi-aɪd/   Listen
Beady-eyed

adjective
1.
Having eyes that gleam with malice.





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"Beady-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not understand, but guessed he expected the Sahib to stick up for a Sikh against any damn Chinee. I would have liked to photograph the two—they were such a contrast as they sat on their heels beside each other, the wizened little expressionless, beady-eyed Chinaman with his thread of a pigtail, and his arm in the grasp of the long Sikh, with black beard and long hair wound ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
... Marseillaise, so he played that as an antidote each time after they had made the hard-wood rafters ring and the smoke-filled air vibrate with Teutonic jingoism. The Jew, who probably knew more than he cared to admit, grew more and more beady-eyed each ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy


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