Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wearing eyeglasses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing spectacles; having spectacles on: as, a prim, bespectacled schoolmaster.
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- adjective Wearing
spectacles (glasses ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
Etymologies
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Examples
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Alastair Campbell called the bespectacled resident genius "Brains" after the Thunderbirds puppet.
David Miliband has left frontline politics – but for how long? Jonathan Freedland 2010
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Long gone are the days when the school bully was just the kid who called a bespectacled student "four eyes" or annoyingly tugged on a girl's pigtails during class.
Simi Valley Acorn 2009
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Lindgren, a kind of bespectacled Aaron Eckhart and one of Moss 'right-hand men, had edited a piece called "Freakoutonomics" -- an article about making it during the recession -- and press time was getting near.
Inside The Adam Moss-Hugo Lindgren Rivalry: WWD The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Lindgren, a kind of bespectacled Aaron Eckhart and one of Moss' right-hand men, had edited a piece called "Freakoutonomics" -- an article about making it during the recession -- and press time was getting near.
Inside The Adam Moss-Hugo Lindgren Rivalry: WWD The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The elegantly dressed, pink-bespectacled president also once scaled the fence at Gramercy Park with ladders and sat illegally in the park saying "this today was our Boston Tea Party."
Honesty Cabby Returns $75,000 Worth Of Jewelry He Found In His Taxi Simon McCormack 2011
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Rader, a pudgy, bespectacled sixty-year-old leaned into the glass that separated us and told the scariest story I had ever heard, made more frightening by the calm, unemotional way he told it.
Erin Moriarty: Long Island Serial Killer: Which Other Serial Killers Does He Resemble? Erin Moriarty 2011
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"I have met King recently and talked to him," said Saleh, 63, a balding bespectacled immigrant from Bangladesh.
Long Island Muslims fear their congressman's hearings could flame Islamophobia William Wan 2011
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Rader, a pudgy, bespectacled sixty-year-old leaned into the glass that separated us and told the scariest story I had ever heard, made more frightening by the calm, unemotional way he told it.
Erin Moriarty: Long Island Serial Killer: Which Other Serial Killers Does He Resemble? Erin Moriarty 2011
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"I have met King recently and talked to him," said Saleh, 63, a balding bespectacled immigrant from Bangladesh.
Long Island Muslims fear their congressman's hearings could flame Islamophobia William Wan 2011
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After Mr. ElBaradei left his position as head of the IAEA in 2009, he returned to Egypt in February 2010 to a hero's welcome from pro-democracy activists, who met him at the airport armed with signs decorated with Mr. ElBaradei's bespectacled face.
Egypt's ElBaradei Ends Bid for Presidency, Citing Continued Autocracy Matt Bradley 2012
madmouth commented on the word bespectacled
"Duckman, you bespectacled toilet brush!"
April 18, 2009