squinny

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squinny
Noun
  • Up on deck for a smoke afterward, Spencer squints at the horizon: Yep, that’s land in the distance.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die with a palpably slower, thicker Martin Lawrence (*collective squint) nears $300 million globally.
    Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Jacob-Jenkins has penned Naz as an asexual introvert, the kind of young man who finds solace in nature and lakes and everything that takes him far away from either his father’s infidelity or the glare of political attention.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Overhangs and sun-shading louvers outside of the kitchen and family room control glare without blocking the views to Lake Michigan below.
    Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sharp jinks, wild dives, erratic rolls—moves that once confounded algorithms—now fall apart under Red Eye’s relentless gaze.
    Amir Husain, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Her gaze settled on the boot once more, noticing a sliver of paper jutting from inside the tongue.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The cruel comments and stares have left permanent emotional scars that have led to deep battles with mental health and feelings of low self-worth.
    Andy Collinson, Health, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The two stare at each other, separated by decades yet both connected by the same horrible history, all of it tethered to the person lying dead on the asphalt.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At the spa, Victoria pops a pill to relax before her massage, while another old bald guy leers at Piper during a yoga class.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Elsewhere, shadow gapes invite light to flow through the property (another reference to the island’s volcanic origins).
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Squinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squinny. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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