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Dewy-eyed   /dˈui-aɪd/   Listen
Dewy-eyed

adjective
1.
Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.  Synonyms: childlike, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed.  "Dewy-eyed innocence" , "Listened in round-eyed wonder"





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"Dewy-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... nice point to ascertain if the Misses Harrowby would have praised the girl's beauty as they did had they known that she had grown soft and dewy-eyed by talking of Spain with their brother Edgar, though she had hardened a little afterward when he told her that she was the prettiest Andalusian ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various


Words linked to "Dewy-eyed" :   naive, naif


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