shortsighted in English

adjective
1
lacking imagination or foresight.
expedient, shortsighted solutions to problems

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1. He was shortsighted, not thinking about eternity.

2. How fleshly —how shortsighted— they were!

3. I can be a bit impulsive, occasionally shortsighted.

4. From a shortsighted human standpoint, that might sound reasonable.

5. 18 The world’s view of life is shortsighted.

6. Kingdom citizens have abandoned such shortsighted, self-centered attitudes.

7. His philosophical eyes were obviously shortsighted by the evil influence of Nazism.

8. But violence is a shortsighted solution when it really comes to handling your enemies.

9. Antonyms for Augural include half-baked, half-cocked, improvident, myopic, shortsighted, auspicious, promising, propitious, encouraging and unthreatening

10. (Matthew 10:28) Fear of men is shortsighted, Jesus explained, for men cannot destroy our future life prospects.

11. 1:25-28) Would it not be foolish and shortsighted for us to be influenced entirely by public opinion?

12. Editorialists grumbled that Clinton had come off as a wimp and a patsy, Sino-pundits called the shortsighted, Conniving American president no match for the farsighted, Conniving Chinese.

13. It's my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable.