blinkered
adjective
blink·ered
ˈbliŋ-kərd 
1
: limited in scope or understanding : narrow-minded
2
: fitted with blinders
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Working in the wedding-and-a-funeral formula, Burnett spins a comic-tragic yarn about Pierce (Everett Silas), a kind of blinkered fool, who works at his parent’s dry cleaners.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 July 2024
Photo : Public domain Preston Tucker’s car was an ambitious but failed experiment, an unfortunate cocktail fueled by the inventor’s own hubris, ill-willed government bureaucracy, and Detroit’s blinkered automotive industrial complex.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
While the show has been dinged since its earliest days for having a blinkered or inaccurate depiction of its Chicago environs, that tends to matter most to critics from Chicago.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 July 2024
Photo : Public domain Preston Tucker’s car was an ambitious but failed experiment, an unfortunate cocktail fueled by the inventor’s own hubris, ill-willed government bureaucracy, and Detroit’s blinkered automotive industrial complex.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Blinkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blinkered. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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