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myopic

 adjective
     
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my‧o‧pic
1 unwilling or unable to think about the future, especially about the possible results of a particular action - used in order to show disapproval [= short-sighted]:
the government's myopic attitude to environmental issues
2 medicalMI unable to see things clearly that are far away [= short-sighted BrE; = near-sighted AmE]
—myopically adverb
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