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beady

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bead·y  (bd)
adj. bead·i·er, bead·i·est
1. Small, round, and shiny: beady eyes.
2. Decorated or covered with beads.

beady [ˈbiːdɪ]
adj beadier, beadiest
1. small, round, and glittering: used esp of eyes
2. resembling or covered with beads
beadily  adv
beadiness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.beady - small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes"
bright - emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
2.beady - covered with beads or jewels or sequins
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

beady
adjective bright, powerful, concentrated, sharp, intense, shining, glittering, gleaming, glinting She felt the old woman's beady eyes on her.
Translations
beady [ˈbiːdɪ] ADJ beady eyesojos mpl pequeños y brillantes
beady [ˈbiːdi] adj
beady eyes → yeux mpl de fouine
beady
adj beady eyewaches Auge; I’ve got my beady eye on you (inf)ich beobachte Sie genau!
beady [ˈbiːdɪ] adj beady eyesocchi mpl piccoli e penetranti


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--with their forked tongues, their beady eyes and glittering scales, their hissing and their rattling--did I not already know them far too well on that day of my first circus when I saw the snake-charmer lift them up?
Here was the fighter--the beast with a streak for a forehead, with beady eyes under lowering and bushy brows, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, sullen-mouthed.
Da Souza cried, his beady eyes protuberant, and his glass arrested half-way to his mouth.
 
 
 
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