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dead-eyed (comparative more dead-eyed, superlative most dead-eyed)

  1. Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 911:
      [] 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, []
    • 2011, Andrew Klavan, The Final Hour, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 20:
      The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past.
    • 2011, Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, pages 132–133:
      The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression.
    • 2013, Janos Jantner, Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 18:
      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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