short-sightedly

See also: shortsightedly

English

Etymology

short-sighted +‎ -ly

Adverb

short-sightedly (comparative more short-sightedly, superlative most short-sightedly)

1. in a short-sighted manner.
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 107:

     'She peered short-sightedly at Poirot through her glasses, but was quite calm.'

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:

     My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.

References

• “short-sightedly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.