: naively innocent and trusting
a dewy-eyed optimist
Examples of dewy-eyed in a Sentence
dewy-eyed newlyweds who had yet to experience the trials and tribulations of married life
perpetrators of the fraud lured in dewy-eyed investors
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Not the dewy-eyed woe-is-me sensitive type, this one.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Dewy-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dewy-eyed. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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