narrow sighted

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narrow sighted (comparative more narrow sighted, superlative most narrow sighted)

  1. Alternative form of narrow-sighted
    • 1951, Journal of Indian History - Volumes 28-29, page 254:
      Commenting on the report of Vansittart Wilson, observes that in 1763 “the narrow sighted selfishness of commercial cupidity had rendered all the members of the Council, with the two honourable exceptions of Vansittart and Hastings, obstinately inaccessible to the plainest dictates of reason, justice and policy."
    • 1996, Witness Lee, The Speciality, Generality, and Practicality of the Church Life, page 69:
      For the sake of the Lord's recovery, we should not be narrow sighted and only set our eyes on the local church in the city where we reside.
    • 2020, Joseph Edward Bonnette, Crucifixion Shockwave, page 285:
      They diagnose the slightest look of sadness or personality disorder, to mean the same as sin, or guilt or even demon possession: which is being very narrow sighted, and whose thoughts cannot proceed into the depth of the scriptures or or real physical ailments.