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adj. - Carefully observant or attentive; Having very keen vision.

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  • The one is sagacious, argus-eyed; the other oracular, sibylline.
  • Those agency employes were argus-eyed, watching each move made by him and his assistants.
  • "And the best of all is that we are going to get the better of that argus-eyed Dragon!" said Cyn.
  • The intervening sea is one over which the most penetrating of argus-eyed policemen or sheriffs, can not see.
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