swivel-eyed
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Adjective[edit]
swivel-eyed (comparative more swivel-eyed, superlative most swivel-eyed)
- Having a squint.
- (by extension) Fanatical, deranged.
- 2017, Alex Mitchell, Turnbull – waving or drowning?[1]:
- He will rattle into Canberra surrounded by a coterie of swivel-eyed trusties like Peta Credlin as chief of staff, Andrew Bolt as media director and Greg Sheridan as national security adviser.
- 2019, Greg Sheridan, New Chinese era of living dangerously[2]:
- Richardson, Warner, Lewis and Adamson are not swivel-eyed, right-wing loons — Richardson was Bob Hawke’s chief of staff.
- 2019, Michael Moszynski, Labour’s dire general election campaign[3]:
- It seems that the Lib Dems’ policy to revoke Article 50 without a referendum has disturbed the sensibilities of all but the most swivel-eyed Remainers.
- 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
- Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.