How to Use shortsighted in a Sentence

shortsighted

adjective

• The plan was dangerously shortsighted.
• Games moving forward and the wins and losses that come with them are a shortsighted view.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• Those who grouse about the cost are being as shortsighted as their rich patrons.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Churches have been taught to fear or even hate the press, but this is a shortsighted attitude.
  — Joseph Marchelewski, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Even back in 1987, the decision seemed stupid and shortsighted.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2024
• On top of that, the idea that the Telegraph Company was shortsighted and failed to see the potential of the telephone doesn’t seem to bear out.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• That has left us with a shortsighted recipe bank and omitted the cuisines of entire regions and cultures....
  — The Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• Pinning so much hope on the deal with China seems shortsighted.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• That’s not to say flood-control planning in and around Houston has not been shortsighted.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 31 Aug. 2017
• This is shortsighted and will erase the charm that makes Winter Garden special.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• But their support for Trump could well prove shortsighted.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• But both of those are shortsighted, largely untrue, and negligent of the rules.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 25 June 2020
• Should that rule be enforced because someone was once shortsighted enough to write it down?
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• The coal industry, for its part, says that many of these retirements may prove shortsighted.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 May 2020
• This seems shortsighted, though, as the carmakers could learn a lot from what Comma.ai has accomplished.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2020
• The shortsighted practice of stopping all fire, experts say, is no longer an option.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2021
• The Navy brass was too shortsighted to make use of their invention, but in the 1950s, with that patent as a basis, the military put Lamarr’s ideas into practice.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
• To think that any player, let alone a superstar like Betts, doesn’t care about winning is shortsighted.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The light rail budget item is cynical and shortsighted.
  — The Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 29 May 2018
• Although the rock star was a cash cow while alive, his lavish spending habits and shortsighted deal-making left the family in dire straits once he was gone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• But telling a generation raised on Alexa that AI could someday turn on you for being rude seems a bit shortsighted.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 24 July 2021
• This incessant ragging has been all too easy—and maybe shortsighted.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Some recruiters might believe having a peer group at work is the holy grail of retention today, but that view is shortsighted.
  — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Jen Psaki's scornful response to the idea of free at-home tests reflects just how shortsighted the U.S. government's response to Covid-19 still is.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
• But not to understand that the Beatles transformed rock ’n’ roll would be very shortsighted.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• But the focus on whether one individual can or can’t perform a job, rather than on the nature of the job itself, is shortsighted.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• So the idea that the exploding market impacting Lamb’s price tag was shortsighted.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2024
• Texas didn’t pay for that, either, in another cost-saving move that proved shortsighted.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
• This policy stems from a narrow, shortsighted perspective and a warped brand of faith.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• To think, nonetheless purport this is ahistorical, egregiously shortsighted, and, inevitably, anti-Black.
  — Julian Randall, Essence, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024