Translation for "wall-eyed" to spanish

Wall-eyed

adjective

• torpe
• tonto
• de ojos incoloros

Translation examples

estrábico noun

I grabbed him by the arm, remembering the wall-eyed man in the arcade in Milan.
Le agarré por el brazo recordando al tipo estrábico de la galería de Milán.

"It's that wall-eyed one night before last on television with the crooked teeth," she guesses. "No!"
—Es ese tipo estrábico que salió la última noche por la televisión, mostrando sus dientes cariados… adivina. —¡No!

One of its headlamps was permanently askew, so that the lights had a comically wall-eyed, groping glare.
Uno de los faros estaba permanentemente torcido, de manera que las luces poseían una mirada cómicamente estrábica, como si avanzaran a tientas.

He gave me a wall-eyed look, and with good reason—I was still dressed like a hard-nosed punk, and the cheap booze stinking up my dirty shirt added to the image.
Me lanzó una mirada estrábica, y con razón, yo seguía vestido como un duro matón y el alcohol barato que emanaba de mi camisa sucia no hacía más que completar mi indumentaria.

The wall-eyed creature floated weightlessly ahead of him as though they were inside a spaceship, pulled aside a curtain, told him to take off all his clothes, held up a sheet of transparent plastic for him to see, spread it over a bed, and instructed him to lie down upon it.
La criatura estrábica se puso a flotar delante de él como si estuvieran viajando juntos en la nave Soyuz, descorrió una cortina, le ordenó ganz entkleiden, que se desnudara por completo, le mostró un trozo grande de plástico, extendió éste encima de la cama y le invitó a tenderse sobre él.

He tries to remember who they remind him of while he accepts their hugs, pats on the back, and distressed or encouraging words. He recognizes a couple of employees from the agency; the now decidedly obese money changer who used to change his dollars while the house was being renovated; the doorman from a building in Belgrano where he’d get trapped in the elevator on two out of every three visits; the blond, slightly wall-eyed woman from Air France or Alitalia, who would always point at him when he accompanied his father on his payment rounds as a boy and ask if he could make one like that for her.
Trata de recordar en quién le hacen pensar mientras acepta los abrazos, las palmadas en la espalda, las palabras de congoja o de aliento. Reconoce a un par de empleados de la agencia, al cambista —ya decididamente obeso— que le cambia dólares durante la refacción de la casa, al portero de un edificio de Belgrano donde cada dos por tres queda atrapado en el ascensor, a la mujer rubia, ligeramente estrábica, empleada de Air France o de Alitalia, que de chico, cuando acompaña a su padre en su ronda de pagos, siempre le pregunta, señalándolo, si no puede hacerle uno igual a ella.