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Definition of Myopically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myopically
Literary usage of Myopically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Grub street: A Novel by George Robert Gissing (1891)
"... and with his collar unbuttoned (he wore no tie) to leave his throat at ease
as he bent myopically over the paper, he was writing at express speed, ..."
2. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"... rules which in general prohibit behavior which is only myopically self-serving,
or which imposes large costs on others with small gains to oneself. ..."
3. Power, Competition, and the State by Keith Middlemas (1986)
"... mainly in the Midlands) and BEC which myopically stuck to its preoccupation
with wages on the JCC and emphasised its old lines of demarcation, ..."
4. Blunting the Sword: Budget Policy & the Future of Defense by Dennis S. Ippolito (1994)
"... perception that US military weaknesses might have contributed to the Korean
War's outbreak: Had Truman not been myopically focused on a balanced budget, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1876)
"Now, as this eye, with the lens below the line of vision, required for distant
sight only a +\ glass, it evidently was myopically elongated ; but, ..."
6. Essentials of Americanization by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1920)
"Moreover, myopically to Americanize the immigrant from Europe and to feel thereby
that the heights and breadths of Americanization have been reached reveals ..."
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