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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Squint, adj. [e.m.E. squynt (1563), squint (Spenser).] fig. Oblique, not direct or honest, dissembling, perverse. Only in parasynthetic compounds with -eyed and -minded. —1625 Scot Vox Vera 3.
The petition of the Kirke of Scotland … a squint eyed work looking at military instructions, but arriving at idle impertinent applications Urquhart Rabelais ii xxxiv 220.
You and I both are farre more worthy of pardon then a great rabble of squint-minded fellowes dissembling and counterfeit saints
