1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
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a wide-eyed and trusting child
the sort of phony UFO "artifacts" that wide-eyed tourists fall for
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While Grande embraced the wide-eyed ingenue archetype during the Wicked press tour, her references to Hepburn have become much more overt.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
And this also happens to be the day that the trauma center welcomes a new class of interns and residents, filling the ER with wide-eyed neophytes like Wyle’s John Carter was in the pilot for ER.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Felecia, wide-eyed, stared back at the officers’ hardened expressions.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
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—Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
And this also happens to be the day that the trauma center welcomes a new class of interns and residents, filling the ER with wide-eyed neophytes like Wyle’s John Carter was in the pilot for ER.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Felecia, wide-eyed, stared back at the officers’ hardened expressions.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2024
Depp overloads on his irritating brand of wide-eyed whimsy, and a miscast Sacha Baron Cohen inexplicably sounds like Werner Herzog as the personification of Time.
21.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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