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Round-eyed   /raʊnd-aɪd/   Listen
Round-eyed

adjective
1.
Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.  Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, simple, wide-eyed.  "Dewy-eyed innocence" , "Listened in round-eyed wonder"
2.
Having large round wide-open eyes.  Synonym: saucer-eyed.






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"Round-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... broken up. Attwater leaned on a post, and kept Davis covered with a Winchester. One of the servants was hard by with a second at the port arms, leaning a little forward, round-eyed with eager expectancy. In the open space at the head of the stair, Huish was partly supported by the other native; his face wreathed in meaningless smiles, his mind seemingly sunk in the contemplation of an ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) - The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

... with a laugh, "though it is strange that a king should exchange spoil and glory for one round-eyed, thin-limbed girl who loves his rival. Well, let us thank the gods that made men foolish, and gave us women wit to profit by their folly. If he wants her, let him take her, for few will be poorer ...
— Elissa • H. Rider Haggard

... truant; the enraged mistress, and the faces of the boys he is playing with, and the little child he had the care of asleep, all tell their story well; but none of these come near the exquisite humour and ingenuity of Hogarth. I have the face of that imbecile, round-eyed, half-drunk friend of ours in the corner of the "Election Dinner" now before me, and I can never think of it ...
— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... less excitement and hilarity, the animal evading them to one side, but never actually retreating before them. Finally, it occurred to them both that although they were not catching him they were not driving him away. The consequences of that thought were put into shape by Susy with round-eyed significance. ...
— A Waif of the Plains • Bret Harte

... comprehensive, round-eyed stare at the unpromising surroundings, and followed Happy Jack. "By golly, that's right. Yuh don't git me into no hole like ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower


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