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How to pronounce purblind in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms obtuse


a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin.
Type Words
Synonyms dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired

Examples of purblind

purblind
Even his most purblind supporters knows this is nonsense.
From the economist.com
Here, too, she has shown a deftness of touch that only the most purblind critic would refuse to acknowledge.
From the economist.com
Global-warming inactivists are going to find themselves regarded, even more than before, as purblind bigots.
From the theatlantic.com
For the rest of us, the prospect of two purblind princelings contending high above for the throne of the kingdom is terrifying.
From the time.com
They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it'd be clear to a purblind marmoset that the P88 was mimicking the iPhone.
From the techcrunch.com
Whatever the testimony of those defeats, there was an underlying faith, purblind perhaps, that Nadal would not loosen his grip on the championship.
From the guardian.co.uk
How long do these purblind fools think the big money men would allow the working population to reap the financial harvest if every pensioner dropped dead tomorrow?
From the theargus.co.uk
The critical apparatus he erects approaches the shaky heights of Babel, yet the wealth and profusion of detail within it would purblind Larkin's own shivering sizar.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Dim-sighted: having greatly reduced vision
  • Obtuse: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
  • Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
  • Partially blind; Lacking in discernment or understanding
  • Affected with dimness of vision; near-sighted. ME. pur blind Obs. totally blind
  • Adjective - 1. originally, completely blind 2. partly blind 3. slow in perceiving or understanding