Dead-eyed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.

    "[…]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, […]"

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"[…]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, […]"

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