gimlet-eyed in the PONS Dictionary

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I can sniff her gimlet-eyed ambition.
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Provost, a burly, gimlet-eyed man with a lot of iron in his beard, knows the pond and its seasons well.
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Over the past half-decade, this former tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and financial pundit has reinvented himself as a gimlet-eyed self-help guru.
www.afr.com
And so to the acid test -- and those gimlet-eyed fleet managers will already have worked it out before the salesman has opened his mouth.
www.telegraph.co.uk
In truth, these gimlet-eyed lawyers have been trained to detect the smallest possible copyright infractions -- and are primed to strategically pounce.
theconversation.com
It is witty and wry and gimlet-eyed.
www.sbs.com.au
Yet the honeymoon is coming to an end, and it's time to start balancing our enthusiasm with some gimlet-eyed hard truths.
www.infoworld.com
Her first rule - teach your children how to lose - certainly differentiates the pushy parent with perspective and emotional intelligence from the gimlet-eyed pushy parent fixated on world domination.
www.stuff.co.nz
I am scared to approach something so gimlet-eyed, something with a vision so different -- richer, wilder, more precise -- than my own.
www.slate.com
It has been described as a refreshingly gimlet-eyed examination of memory and a cross-cutting investigation into the horrors of the 20th century.
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