ADJECTIVE
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exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
dewy-eyed innocence
listened in round-eyed wonder
childlike trust
How To Use dewy-eyed In A Sentence
- There is no dewy-eyed romanticism, no sentimentality though plenty of sentiment.
- The dewy-eyed do-gooders might be pleased to know that whoever wins government at the next election our detention centres will still be here.
- My brother and I emerged from the movie dewy-eyed with tears of relief, as we once again realized how close the world had come to Armageddon.
- Then you go all dewy-eyed about a spy you're supposed to be manipulating! LOHENGRIN
- 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
- Depending on your point of view, this is either a dewy-eyed romantic tale about two former lovers or a story about an unhappily married man looking to have sex with an old girlfriend.
- 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
- Let's not give the impression that we are entering into this with dewy-eyed naivety.
- Depending on your point of view, this is either a dewy-eyed romantic tale about two former lovers or a story about an unhappily married man looking to have sex with an old girlfriend.
- By this time, the dewy-eyed idealists had long since fled the CPUSA, a wholly owned Soviet subsidiary. Deconstructing Obama