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popeyed
[ pop-ahyd ]
adjective
- marked by bulging, staring eyes:
a young boy popeyed with excitement.
popeyed
/ ˈɒˌɪ /
adjective
- having bulging prominent eyes
- staring in astonishment; amazed
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This is true Americanism — not the noxious nativism and malignant nationalism touted by popeyed populists.
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In a British film called “My Bare Lady,” Weegee played the part of a nude popeyed judge in a nudist beauty contest.
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Within a few years, the anxious, frizzy-haired, popeyed Mr. Wilder had become an unlikely movie star.
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There's an oddly grotesque style to some of the character design, including the popeyed sloths, as well as the high jinks of the single-minded and physically elastic squirrel Scrat.
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He’s an outrageous racial caricature: round-faced, popeyed, thick-lipped, a cartoon.
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