Meaning of dead-eyed | Babel Free

Definitions

Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.

Examples

“[…]they do not explain the incredible pathos of Paul Anthony Heaven reading his lecture to a crowd of dead-eyed kids picking at themselves and drawing vacant airplane- and genitalia-doodles on their college-rule note-pads, […]”

“The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past.”

“The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression.”

“With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen.”

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