Meaning

A sidelong look, particularly of animosity, judgment, or suspicion..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sidelong look, particularly of animosity, judgment, or suspicion.
2. (transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: evil eye, stink eye; see others there

I'm going to admit that the opening strains sound a wee bit "demo from a home studio," and that the title itself – paired with any other artist – would probably result in a side eye and a quip about done-to-death, cheese-pop metaphors.

[Billy] Squier's band makes a valiant effort to match his camp quotient, with lots of open shirts, exposed chest hair and sexy side-eyes to the camera.

The incredibly different ways [Bill] Clinton and [Monica] Lewinsky are treated even today makes a shockingly sad statement about how, 15 years of discussion of gender equality later – including the insertion of slut-shaming into the national dialogue as something you're not supposed to do – we can't even manage to divide our collective side-eyes evenly between men and women.

It was his side eye. He had the sexiest side eye she'd ever seen. He'd tip his head in that George Clooney kind of way and peer at you from beneath those thick lashes.

Side-eye, that sidelong glance favored by shade queens like Mariah Carey [and] devil-may-care rebels like Rihanna, is finally being acknowledged in the canon [the Merriam–Webster Dictionary].

I saw some snarking online about Bishop Michael Curry's passionate sermon, and certainly the royal family seemed unnerved by it, with Zara Philips watching it in apparent open-mouthed shock and Kate and Camilla shooting each other some heavy side-eye.

"If you look closely at Benjamin's face in that picture, he's got amazing side-eye,” [Anderson] Cooper joked. "He's got this side-eye look, like he's very judgy. In general, I think babies are very judgy, but he's particularly judgy."

Word Forms

• side-eyes
• side eye
• side-eyeing
• side-eying
• side-eyed

Synonyms for side-eye

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Use side-eye when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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