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
- Let's not give the impression that we are entering into this with dewy-eyed naivety.
- Long proclaimed by dewy-eyed architecture critics as the prettiest town in England, the spot has won over foodies for having the most Michelin-starred restaurants in Britain outside London.
- Internationalism and its call for collective sovereignty - like socialism - may sound like the new messiah to dewy-eyed idealists.
- Still I'm not the dewy-eyed innocent of a year ago.
- `My mother," he said, pointing to a dark-haired woman wearing something gauzy, dewy-eyed, with slightly parted lips. THE GOLDEN LION
- dewy-eyed innocence
- Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- In traveling to the homes of famous writers, he wanted to re-create, if not re-enact, the rather breathless and dewy-eyed excursions of Victorian tourists through the English countryside. Modern Reliquaries
- I read my grandfather's diaries and watched my father become a thin and dewy-eyed man. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
- Going dewy-eyed like a romantic schoolgirl and stroking Judd's back as she talked, Lopez said her wedding had been ‘magical, really romantic.’