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roving eye

noun

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  1. Wide-ranging observation of one's surroundings.

    • Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.
    • His roving eye traveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.
    • Like Jimmy Breslin, a writer he was often compared to, he turned his roving eye to ordinary Southerners overlooked by most writers and mined the inexhaustible vein of human experience.

  2. The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own…

    The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own spouse or regular romantic partner.

    • This dame she was new-fangled And of a roving eye. . . . "Beshrew me," quoth King Arthur, "I think thou be'st not true!"
    • But because she her wanton, roving eye Turned upon me, her angry paramour Did scourge her from her head unto her feet.
    • Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA