Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with obliquity of vision; squint-eyed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having convergent strabismus. Contrasted with
walleyed . - adjective Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK Having both
eyes orientedinward , especiallyinvoluntarily .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having convergent strabismus
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Examples
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Being called a cross-eyed runt was nothing new anyway.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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Being called a cross-eyed runt was nothing new anyway.
Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993
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Riddled with misspellings, bad grammar and symbols that would make most people under the age of 20 cross-eyed, we are living in a world of Twitter, texting and Facebook.
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Heidi, a cross-eyed opossum from Germany which died in September, suffered from esotropia due to malnutrition earlier in life.
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Riddled with misspellings, bad grammar and symbols that would make most people under the age of 20 cross-eyed, we are living in a world of Twitter, texting and Facebook.
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Riddled with misspellings, bad grammar and symbols that would make most people under the age of 20 cross-eyed, we are living in a world of Twitter, texting and Facebook.
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In the end, all those upside-down trees leave me cross-eyed.
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In the end, all those upside-down trees leave me cross-eyed.
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An unnamed Arab ambassador has successfully had his marriage annulled after discovering that his veiled wife was bearded and cross-eyed.
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Riddled with misspellings, bad grammar and symbols that would make most people under the age of 20 cross-eyed, we are living in a world of Twitter, texting and Facebook.
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