wild-eyed
adjective
1
: having a wild expression in the eyes
2
: consisting of or favoring extreme or visionary ideas
Examples of wild-eyed in a Sentence
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Alarmists often come off as wild-eyed and silly; deflationists, in contrast, get to seem coolheaded and dignified.
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
The aye-aye, with its permanent expression of wild-eyed shock and long, slender skeleton fingers, is as much a fright as an eyesore.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Better still, Austin was a fan of Abbey’s writing and a close friend of Doug Peacock, the Vietnam War veteran on whom Abbey based his wild-eyed saboteur George Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang.
—Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
This is serious business, as serious as when wild-eyed protesters descended on the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices following the Dobbs decision.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
This month, the 34-year-old actor is reprising his wacky, wild-eyed and highly energetic Grinch performance for the third year in a row.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
Oldboy is flashy, but there’s a moral and social disconnect between showing off Park’s undeniable chops and Choi Min-sik’s wild-haired, wild-eyed, poignant descent into madness.
—Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2023
Those wild-eyed potential promises of the future can wait.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
The two-hour play, which opened Saturday in its world premiere, turns Christie’s serious novel into a raucous parody that pokes fun at theatrical conventions and transforms the famously fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot into a wild-eyed cartoonish creation.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
The aye-aye, with its permanent expression of wild-eyed shock and long, slender skeleton fingers, is as much a fright as an eyesore.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Better still, Austin was a fan of Abbey’s writing and a close friend of Doug Peacock, the Vietnam War veteran on whom Abbey based his wild-eyed saboteur George Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang.
—Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
This is serious business, as serious as when wild-eyed protesters descended on the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices following the Dobbs decision.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
This month, the 34-year-old actor is reprising his wacky, wild-eyed and highly energetic Grinch performance for the third year in a row.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
Oldboy is flashy, but there’s a moral and social disconnect between showing off Park’s undeniable chops and Choi Min-sik’s wild-haired, wild-eyed, poignant descent into madness.
—Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2023
Those wild-eyed potential promises of the future can wait.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
The two-hour play, which opened Saturday in its world premiere, turns Christie’s serious novel into a raucous parody that pokes fun at theatrical conventions and transforms the famously fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot into a wild-eyed cartoonish creation.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
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