beady eyes
Small, piercing stare
Beady eyes are small, round, and gleaming—like beads.
The phrase almost always carries negative connotations, suggesting someone watchful, suspicious, or predatory: The shopkeeper kept his beady eyes on us the whole time.
A person with beady eyes seems calculating or untrustworthy, their gaze too intent and piercing.
- staresProlonged fixed looks
- cold stareHostile, unblinking gaze
- penetratingPassing into or through
- glancesSwift, passing looks
- focusedDirecting attention narrowly
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