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• s  exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
  dewy-eyed innocence

• Real old-timers who tuned in to the charade might have gone dewy-eyed in reminiscence of Depression days.
• The red-lipped, white-helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s.
• Out went the uninflected blah blah; in rushed the dewy-eyed rah rah.

• childlike
• wide-eyed
• round-eyed
• simple

News & Articles

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• When Peter Rabbit goes bad
  When Peter first made his appearance on area lawns, not many of us took notice. The thrill of a little wildlife in the yard was exciting and everybody loved the dewy-eyed innocence of a bunny placidly nosing about.
  June 24, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera

Quotes

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• Chris Mooney in Bloomington Pantagraph
  Lincoln was no dewy-eyed do-gooder,Mooney said.
• Elizabeth Gilbert in The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
  She's dewy-eyed and overcome by love,Gilbert explains, shrugging. "Not my kind of guy."