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dewy-eyed
adj 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
lovely
VERB + DEWY-EYED
bit, displays, saw
DEWY-EYED + NOUN
it's, lip-biting, sentimentality, woman
PREP.
from
ADV.
clearly
Definitions
adj
1
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.
One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
2
Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
Dowie could scarcely have told what phrase or word at last suddenly brought up before her a picture of the nursery in the house in Mayfair—the feeling of a warm soft childish body pressed close to her knee, the look of a tender, dewy-eyed small face and the sound of a small yearning voice saying: "I want to kiss you, Dowie."
3
Excessively nostalgic.
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One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
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Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
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What does his wife, music teacher Caroline, think about his retiring to a quiet life in Wantage? "I think she's a bit dewy-eyed. She thinks it's going to be nice to spend more time with me. I have to
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