fish-eyed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.91 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by an unblinking stare that lacks warmth or friendliness.
adj
Visually distorted as if seen through a fisheye lens.
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of fish-eye
Example Sentences
- "“You mean, like a tribe of fish-eyed monsters living down here?”"
- "PETRA: Is a ravenous and deranged fish-eyed monster with a sickly complexion on Whisper Isle."
- "The bloody sea churned as thousands of sharp-toothed, fish-eyed monsters surged toward the man that had slain them in the world of the living."
- "Our images were of miniscule fish-eyed creatures, with knobs and protrusions, the kind we had seen in biology books."
- "If you speak to one of these saffron-hued natives, especially to one of the children, you are generally met by a very curious, fish-eyed stare without a gleam of intelligence back of it, and you wait long before you get a reply."
- "He flicked off his cigarette ash again and looked at me, fish-eyed."