dewy-eyed
Adjective
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Adjective
dewy-eyed
- Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of crying or that one is experiencing strong emotions.
- circa 1910 Stewart Edward White, The Call of the North, ch. 1:
- One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
- 2000, Romesh Ratnesar, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815094719/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0612/clinton.html The Victory Lap?]," Time Magazine Europe, 12 June:
- Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
- circa 1910 Stewart Edward White, The Call of the North, ch. 1:
- (figuratively) Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
- 1918, John Galsworthy, "The Apple Tree" in Five Tales:
- At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
- 1918, John Galsworthy, "The Apple Tree" in Five Tales:
- Excessively nostalgic.
- (having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance) teary-eyed, misty-eyed
- (naive, innocent) callow, green, wet behind the ears
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