Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Innocent; naive.
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- adjective Having eyes with a
moist ,glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on theverge ofcrying or that one is experiencing strongemotions . - adjective figuratively
Naive orinnocent in the manner of a child.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
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Examples
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By this time, the dewy-eyed idealists had long since fled the CPUSA, a wholly owned Soviet subsidiary.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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They were fine for dewy-eyed kids and paunchy, middle-aged liberals to whom his biography was a lure and not a problem.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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They were fine for dewy-eyed kids and paunchy, middle-aged liberals to whom his biography was a lure and not a problem.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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In traveling to the homes of famous writers, he wanted to re-create, if not re-enact, the rather breathless and dewy-eyed excursions of Victorian tourists through the English countryside.
Modern Reliquaries Eric Ormsby 2012
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He has the entire arsenal of film-making at his disposal, but can't seem to snap out of a now-habitual mode of vitality-erasing, dewy-eyed affectation.
War Horse – review 2011
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By this time, the dewy-eyed idealists had long since fled the CPUSA, a wholly owned Soviet subsidiary.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Both King and Snyder eschew the vampire as dashing sophisticate or dewy-eyed romantic ( "King hates 'Twilight' more than I do," Snyder notes).
The 'Riffs Interview: 'American Vampire's' SCOTT SNYDER on vampires, Vertigo & collaborator Stephen King Michael Cavna 2010
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No wonder that in the movies he is inevitably played by gleaming, dewy-eyed hunks like Henry Fonda, James Garner, Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner—he's the Platonic ideal of virtuous beefcake.
New Tales of the Old West Lee Sandlin 2011
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Their story was the basis for a recent straight-to-DVD ditty, called "Little Ashes," staring Robert Pattinson, who took time off from his "Twilight" duties to play a dewy-eyed, leaden-lipped Salvador Dal í.
In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style J. S. Marcus 2010
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Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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