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Shortsightedly

adverb

With short sight; myopically.

  • The teacher peered shortsightedly around the classroom.

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Certainly, George Bush's administration shortsightedly failed to condemn a short-lived coup against Mr Chávez, an elected leader, in 2002; it has helped Venezuela's opposition.

Shortsightedly, some Europeans don't think Taiwan is much of their concern.

Even more shortsightedly, they are left hoping that those guests who do begrudgingly stump up $19 for 24 hours' Wi-Fi access are still going to write something nice about their room while waiting in the bar for their equally expensive Coco Locos to arrive.The good news is that these are the dying days of paid-for Wi-Fi.

Shortsightedly, the central government has scaled back its contributions dramatically.

This looks shortsightedly self-serving: it is a sop from Lula to his party's left-wing, which disagrees with his economic policies.

Yet the same across-the-board-cut mentality that led to sequester and shutdown has shortsightedly cut statistics agencies, too, as if there were something "nonessential" about spending money on accurately assessing the economic effects of government actions and inactions.

And, having shortsightedly kept Turkey out of the European Union, the West is scarcely qualified to complain.

The Senate spent this week searching for ways to water down the modest greenhouse gas emissions targets in the House-passed energy bill, which opponents claim — wrongly and shortsightedly — will injure the economy.

"They must not think shortsightedly," they add.

They must not think shortsightedly.

Putin was triumphant last November, when he seemed to have successfully (and shortsightedly) torpedoed the EU's association agreement with Ukraine.

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