ADJ
bad | slight
VERB + SQUINT
have
correct
The doctor said that my child's squint could be corrected with special glasses.
SQUINT + NOUN
surgery
verb
To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
The children squinted to frighten each other.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
To look or glance sideways.
To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
noun
An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
A quick or sideways glance.
A short look; a peep.
—And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint. —Give us a squint at her, says I.
A hagioscope.
adj
Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
askew, not level
To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.
Does she squint like a bag of nails? Is she hideous? They always are!' The Earl stood back.'You may judge for yourself,' he said dryly. 'Miss Taverner, little though he may have re
The children squinted to frighten each other.
Wiktionary“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in
WiktionaryYet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
WiktionaryHe looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
Wiktionary—And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint. —Give us a squint at her, says I.
WiktionaryI have a bad squint.
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In some senses, squint is marked as figuratively, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.