What does dead-eyed mean?
Dead-eyed means Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant..
[…]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, […]
The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past.
The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression.
With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen.
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Dead-eyed means Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant..
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[…]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, […]
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