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beady-eyedadjective1Having small, round, gleaming eyes: a beady-eyed chicken...- ‘The train is never late,’ jokes the beady-eyed black-bearded station master as we wait in the middle of the Corsican mountains for it to arrive, ‘but the timetable is often a little wrong.’
- He appeared in real life as I had seen him in photos: beady-eyed, with dark matted hair and a free-growing beard, always seeming to wear the cumbersome jacket with a hood that is much beloved of movie directors.
- In this remake of the Argentine caper Nine Queens, the great John C. Reilly manages to imbue his pudgy, beady-eyed grifter Richard Gaddis with an offbeat élan.
1.1Keenly observant, typically in a sinister or hostile way: beady-eyed security guards uniformed guards view you with beady-eyed suspicion...- Unfortunately, this brief exchange was caught by the beady-eyed cheerleaders.
- They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances.
- But what the company may not have realised is that Bow Road has its very own beady-eyed resident blogger.
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