(n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
(pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) He accused Republicans who have called the package wasteful and badly targeted as ideologically blinkered and of being obstructive without offering an alternative vision.
(2) We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.
(3) I'm like a horse on the racecourse with the blinkers on.
(4) As those familiar with my novels know (especially Ulverton and Hodd ), I've always believed in the modernity of the past, from which our temporal conceit blinkers us.
(5) The lawyers who argued against the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday urged the court to a definition of marriage more elegant than the blinkered "insert-tab-A-into-slot-B" logic of the anti-equality crusaders.
(6) "George Osborne is, in a blinkered way, carrying on regardless of what people know is the reality.
(7) Non-Indigenous Australia’s emotional nexus with the land – with its roots in masculine pioneering stories and blinkered notions of benign settlement, and for all its subsequent embodiment in the over-mythologised, stylised story of Anzac – is already stretched with the emergence of each new urban generation.
(8) The stupidity of the blinkered, religiously motivated agenda on display here is that no matter what legislation these men implement, they will never succeed in banning abortion, per se, only safe, legal abortion.
(9) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(10) I am a resident and I am a mother, and of course I am concerned about health risks, but the anti-frackers are absolutely blinkered.
(11) Yes, the Tories historically haven’t exactly been that gay-friendly but unless you’re so blinkered to the fact that parties and individuals can change, then you’ll have noticed how David Cameron has been hugely successful in leading his party to a position where there is scarcely a tissue paper between the position of his party compared to the other two on gay issues,” he wrote.
(12) General secretary John Smith says he has sympathy for the FAC's attitude but thinks its campaign "a bit blinkered" and "counterproductive".
(13) Is it preferable to put on blinkers, seek out a desert island hideaway and pretend the World Cup is not happening?
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) Watford’s speed of thought and foot was such that Newcastle’s fading centre-half played like a man wearing blinkers.
(16) The Treasury has always been at its most comfortable counting the candle ends: by rescinding this loan ministers have shown that the blinkered, short-termist, anti-industry mind set of the 1980s is back with a vengeance.
(17) "His is a narrow nationalism that prays for Tory success so that he can convince people that the only way to get rid of the Tories is to get out of the UK … Have you ever heard such a selfish, self-serving, narrow-minded blinkered piece of nonsense?"
(18) Blinkering the horizons of children must be wrong wherever they learn.
(19) Aspinall said: "She was one in a long line of people who had blinkers on about what the families were fighting for, the injustice of the inquest, and in preventing us going forward."
(20) Meanwhile, says Dotcom, an aggressive and outdated approach in Hollywood blinkers them from the potential to build a new business model around the internet.
Flasher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, flashes.
(n.) A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
(n.) A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
(n.) The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary.
(2) "Flashers" and "heavy breathers" were so much a part of the fabric of the culture that they were a running joke, part of "the dirty mac brigade" who were really to be pitied.
(3) It wouldn't apply to posting a picture of a flasher on a website to warn others.
(4) The vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority recently gained the right to a red light "with flasher" though the eight "members" of the authority will have to make do with lights "without flasher".
(5) Detailed instructions for the packing of the adsorption tube and the operation of the thermal concentrator (flasher) are given.
(6) 32:1404-1411, 1988; N. Düzgüneş, D. A. Ashtekar, D. L. Flasher, N. Ghori, R. J. Debs, D. S. Friend, and P. R. J. Gangadharam, J. Infect.
(7) He’s an unswerving non-driver: “When I was growing up in the Wairarapa we couldn’t afford a car and then I got to Wellington and didn’t need a car.” We are talking at Deluxe, the boho cafe where his fellow Conchord Bret McKenzie used to work – between the dilapidated artists’ joint the duo once shared and the “flasher” home where Clement now lives with his wife, Miranda, and son, Sophocles Iraia.
(8) The act takes a much tougher line on "flashers" and "peeping toms".
(9) The adsorbent was packed in stainless steel column of a suitable size, and the adsorbed vapours were released by heating in the flasher then analysed by gas chromatography.
(10) Observations were made of 57 drivers who approached a rural rail grade crossing in the presence of activated warning flashers signalling an approaching train.