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shortsighted

adjective as in unmindful of future consequences

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But the response from prominent Jewish groups and leaders has been shortsighted.

By Friday morning in Washington, that assessment looked shortsighted.

Others end up being very shortsighted and simply buy all the items they need for dinner and nothing more.

That's a pretty shortsighted approach to music, historically speaking.

Conservatives attacking Baldwin for his latest fit of (justified) anger are being small-time and shortsighted.

The Seneschal peered at him curiously through shortsighted eyes.

He was a fair-faced, blue-eyed young man, very shortsighted, with a faint lisp and an effeminate air.

The overthrow of Marlborough effected an object quite unlooked for by his eager and shortsighted enemies.

It becomes us, shortsighted and fallible as we are, to deal cautiously and tenderly with the memory of the illustrious departed.

Although I am rather shortsighted, I foresee great calamities in the future.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortsighted, such as: foolish, ill-advised, ill-considered, impractical, imprudent, and myopic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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