Dead-eyed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dead-eyed is an adjective meaning Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.
Meaning
Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.
Example Sentences
The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression.
The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past.
With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen.
[…]they do not explain the incredible pathos of Paul Anthony Heaven reading his lecture to a crowd of dead-eyed kids picking at themselves and drawing vacant airplane- and genitalia-doodles on their college-rule note-pads, […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dead, emotionless, deadpan, bloodless, affectless, ice-cold.
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