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UK
/spˈɛktəkəld/
]
ADJECTIVE
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wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
the monocled gentleman
a bespectacled grandmother
How To Use spectacled In A Sentence
- So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
- He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
- He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
- There was the bullfighter, he was easy to recognize, and the bespectacled guy with half dozen cameras hanging from his neck was obviously the shutterbug.
- Matt is not the bespectacled nerd who taps out columns about dog poo in parks at his typewriter in the evenings.
- He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
- He is, in fact, the only spectacled beheader present. The Holiday Round
- The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
- The other two, Zinner and the drummer Brian Chase - a bespectacled, sphinx-like jazzhead - don't say much.
- I called on Cwasey, a shrimpy bespectacled boy with squinty eyes and a freshly shaved head. Dan Brown: The First Day of "The Great Expectations School" (Exclusive Book Excerpt)