Word "SQUINT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
Synonyms:
askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
Synonyms:
strabismus

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
Synonyms:
squinch
Examples:
The children squinted so as to scare each other

Crossword Clues for SQUINT

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One of five in street with an eye problem (6)
Look with half-shut eyes (6)
Narrow one's eyes at square dancing unit (6)
Make oblique observations (6)
Attempt to block out the sun, maybe USA Today 12 Mar 2024
A way to hold one in five in a disapproving look (6)
Screw up your eyes Puzzler Backwords 16 Feb 2024
Look with half-closed eyes (6)
Oblique look from one of five in street (6)
Screw up one's eyes The Guardian Quick 16 Dec 2023
Try to see Clearly
Peer shortsightedly (6)
Peer short-sightedly (6)
React to bright light Thomas Joseph 20 Jul 2022
Partly close one's eyes (as when suddenly hit by bright light) The Guardian Quick 04 Jun 2022
React to a bright light USA Today 24 Dec 2021
Visual defect, second one of five, with fifth in sight
Way to include member of large family in cast
React to bright light Thomas Joseph 29 May 2019
Look like Clint Eastwood? USA Today 18 Mar 2019
Look like Clint Eastwood?
Oblique look from one with four siblings in 31
React to bright sunlight, perhaps USA Today 31 Aug 2018
Partly close (one's eyes) The Times Concise 01 Jun 2018
React to glare USA Today 28 May 2018
React to glare
React to bright sunlight, perhaps
Partly close one's eyes The Times Concise 27 Sep 2017
Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes The Guardian Quick 28 Apr 2017
Member of large family in the way gets a funny look
Scrunch one's eyes The Washington Post 13 Nov 2016
Look obliquely at one of five in the street
Optical disorder The Guardian Speedy 24 Sep 2016
Look in a cross-eyed way The Telegraph Quick 28 May 2016
Look like Mr. Magoo Wall Street Journal 08 Dec 2015
Nobody welcomes new peer The Times Cryptic 11 Feb 2015
One of five children in street seen in a glance
Look like Mr. Magoo
Look on the bright side?
Someone having siblings put into street has you looking askance
Hard look?
What you might do when looking at the bright side?
Make like Mr. Magoo
Look askance
React to sunlight, in a way
React to sunlight, in a way
Peer with partially closed eyes
Look into the sun, say
Glare reaction
Look into the sun, say
Fight the glare, maybe
Look askance
React to having in the sun in one's eyes
Fight the glare, maybe
Strain to see
Peer
Look askance
Look toward the sun
Look askance.
Quick look.
Look with the eyes partly closed.
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