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side-eyed

side-eyed is the simple past and past participle of side-eye.

Meaning of side-eye

Verb

side-eye (third-person singular simple present side-eyes, present participle side-eyeing or (rare) side-eying, simple past and past participle side-eyed)

  1. (transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.
    • When I'm working my attention isn't caught straight ahead into the blinkered page, it's side eyeing whatever's peripheral, whatever's random.2003, Faye Kicknosway, “Hat Trick”, in Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xiv

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Adjective

side-eyed (comparative more side-eyed, superlative most side-eyed)

  1. Critical, judgmental.
    • Past sculptures on the National Mall that paid side-eyed tribute to Trump include a bronze pile of poop perched on a congressional desk to “honor” January 6 protestors, and a statue titled “Dictator Approved,” featuring a golden thumbs up crushing the Statue of Liberty’s crown and the base...2025 September 24, Cy Neff, “New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of side-eyed

Verb
alternative formside eyed
Adjective
comparativemore side-eyed
superlativemost side-eyed

Questions about side-eyed

What does side-eyed mean?
Side-eyed means critical, judgmental.
What is side-eyed the simple past and past participle of?
Side-eyed is the simple past and past participle of side-eye.
What part of speech is side-eyed?
Side-eyed is an adjective.

Words near side-eyed in the dictionary

  1. side-effect-free
  2. side-effected
  3. side-effecting
  4. side-effects
  5. side-eye
  6. side-eyed
  7. side-eyeing
  8. side-eyes
  9. side-eying
  10. side-foot
  11. side-gaze

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side-eyed (page history and authors); side-eye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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