shortsightedness
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- n (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
- n a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
- Because of his shortsightedness, other men's sons die, and Joe pins the crime on his partner.
- This year, as every year, the struggle against disease was a grab bag of good and bad--vision and shortsightedness, courage and obtuseness, scientific masterstrokes and experiments .
- The shortsightedness of indigenous leaders has angered the emergent middle classes and the burgeoning poor alike.