: having the eyes dimmed and watery (as from fatigue, drink, or emotion)
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Verdict: These are very tasty, but still get you bleary-eyed.—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024 As dawn broke, a posse of bleary-eyed public servants, credentials on lanyards dangling over their sweatshirts, came out to meet the people.—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024 Childhood visits to Kenya were a mission in themselves—three days of connecting flights and interminable transits in Athens, Cairo, and Nairobi before arriving, bleary-eyed and bad-tempered, in Mombasa.—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024 In the clip, a bleary-eyed Robertson shows her toddler sitting up in bed eating a popsicle and watching TV in the dark.—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bleary-eyed
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