beady-eyed

1. 1.

   having eyes that gleam with malice

   Similarmalicious

Questions about beady-eyed

What does beady-eyed mean?

beady-eyed means "having eyes that gleam with malice".

How many syllables are in beady-eyed?

beady-eyed has 3 syllables and divides as bea-dy-e-yed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is beady-eyed a common word?

beady-eyed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.