dewy-eyed

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dewy-eyed

  1. yksinkertainen, lapsellinen, hyväuskoinen, herkkäuskoinen, naiivi.

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naiivi Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of crying or that one is experiencing strong emotions.
(circa) w:Stewart Edward White|Stewart Edward White, The Call of the North, ch. 1:

One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
2000, Romesh Ratnesar, "http://web.archive.org/web/20000815094719/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0612/clinton.html The Victory Lap?," Time Magazine Europe, 12 June:
Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
puhekieltä naive Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
1918, w:John Galsworthy|John Galsworthy, "The Apple Tree" in Five Tales:
At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
1922, w:Frances Hodgson Burnett|Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robin, ch. 21:
Dowie could scarcely have told what phrase or word at last suddenly brought up before her a picture of the nursery in the house in Mayfair—the feeling of a warm soft childish body pressed close to her knee, the look of a tender, dewy-eyed small face and the sound of a small yearning voice saying: "I want to kiss you, Dowie."
Excessively nostalgic.

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