noun
Medical or descriptive term for misaligned eyes; also used colloquially for a temporary squint.
彼は生まれつきの僻目で、右目が内側に向いている。
He has a congenital squint; his right eye turns inward.
noun
seeing wrong; mistaken sight
Refers to misperceiving something visually, often used in set phrases like 僻目に見える (to appear differently from reality).
暗がりで人の顔が違って見えるのは、ただの僻目だ。
It's just a trick of the light that the person's face looks different in the dark.
noun
Figurative extension: seeing things in a distorted way due to preconceptions or emotions. Often used in the phrase 僻目で見る (to view with prejudice).
彼の行動を僻目で見てはいけない。
Don't look at his actions with prejudice.
それは君の僻目だよ。彼はそんな人じゃない。
That's just your bias. He's not that kind of person.
Compound of 僻 (ひが, 'distorted, biased') and 目 (め, 'eye'). The reading ひが is a rare kun'yomi for 僻, and the word is not commonly used in modern everyday speech.