swivel-eyed

swivel-eyed (comparative more swivel-eyed, superlative most swivel-eyed)

1. Having a squint.
2. (by extension) Fanatical, deranged.
   • 2017, Alex Mitchell, Turnbull – waving or drowning?‎:

     He will rattle into Canberra surrounded by a coterie of swivel-eyed trusties like Peta Credlin as chief of staff, Andrew Bolt as media director and Greg Sheridan as national security adviser.

   • 2019, Greg Sheridan, New Chinese era of living dangerously‎:

     Richardson, Warner, Lewis and Adamson are not swivel-eyed, right-wing loons — Richardson was Bob Hawke’s chief of staff.

   • 2019, Michael Moszynski, Labour’s dire general election campaign‎:

     It seems that the Lib Dems’ policy to revoke Article 50 without a referendum has disturbed the sensibilities of all but the most swivel-eyed Remainers.

   • 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

     Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.

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