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• a  characterized by squinting
  he looked with squinty eyes
• s  (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

• Surely his crook-fingered, squinty-eyed, gravel-voiced denial of sex with "that woman," repeated like a tape loop on TV, looks less persuasive in retrospect.
• Even in the '60s, as the gunslinger in Sergio Leone westerns, Eastwood had the squinty eyes, sour mouth and weary walk of a soldier who had been in too many wars.
• During his 50-odd years of farming in Iowa's Warren County, squinty-eyed old Ed Russell had received many a pastoral call.

• askance
• askant
• asquint
• squint
• squint-eyed
• sidelong

News & Articles

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• Marco Rubio’s gay panic
  RUBIO’S GAY PANIC Try as we might, we’ve yet to be able to muster more than a squinty-blur of possible Christian Bale (via Patrick Bateman) self-immolating attraction to Sen. Marco Rubio, though, given his recent flamboyant flare-ups in the face of the gay question, maybe we ought to give ol’ eyes-too-wide a second glance? He doth protest a bit too much, after all. On June 13, Rubio double ...
  June 18, 2013 - Orlando Weekly

Quotes

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• Jay Manuel in TV.com
  She went from a squinty look to a deer caught in headlights,judge and make-up artist Jay Manuel noted.
• Michael Phelps in USA Today
  When the alarm goes off in the morning for workout,Phelps says, "he'll look up at me and he's almost squinty-eyed, like, 'What are you doing up?' "