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purblind

ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking in insight or discernment
    a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin
    too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior
  2. having greatly reduced vision

How To Use purblind In A Sentence

  • The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts. London Films
  • There are developmental problems: purblindness, other kinds of developmental problems.
  • Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • She meant to try first with that big girl who had helped her put on the shoeman's bronze slippers; and she hurried through the office, pushing purblindly past Ragged Lady — Volume 1
  • The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
  • Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
  • That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
  • The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough. Paras. 40-58
  • As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters.
  • If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
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