2. Adverb. In a manner that fails to consider the big picture or future effects of an action or decision. ¹
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Definition of Shortsightedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortsightedly
Literary usage of Shortsightedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by California, State Board of Harbor Commissioners (1913)
"... than a further segregation into many bodies with local control of separate
harbor fronts, each jealously and shortsightedly striving to ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... the Nootka Sound armament, when war with Spain seemed probable; but from this
it had been shortsightedly reduced to 34097 in 1791 and to 16000 in 1792. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Thoughtlessly and shortsightedly, Maxentius, abandoning this excellent position,
made a bridge of boats across the Tiber (near the Milvian Bridge now Ponte ..."
4. The American Political Science Review (1918)
"... they are average voters looking after their own interests, and organizing to
protect them,—albeit, sometimes somewhat shortsightedly. ..."
5. Poems by Bernard Barton (1825)
"Nay, they might even, when the storm was o'er, shortsightedly this damsel's fate
deplore; And blindly deprecate her dreadful doom, Thus early crown'd with ..."
6. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"... without it, this immediate feeling would work blindly and shortsightedly ;
but it is not Reason alone which leads to an estimation of human actions. ..."
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