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bleary-eyed
[ bleer-ee-ahyd ]
adjective
- having bleary eyes.
- dull of perception; shortsighted.
bleary-eyed
adjective
- with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- physically or mentally unperceptive
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bleary-eyed1
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Example Sentences
In the downstairs exhibit hall, attendees of all ages slumped on the white sofas like bleary-eyed rag dolls.
Shots of a bleary-eyed William leaving a London club at the weekend in today's Daily Mail.
The party scene grew and grew, and many a morning session was attended by bleary-eyed veterans of all-night binges.
So bleary-eyed was Ruth by the time she got to work that her bosses let her go after only three months.
I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery.
He was a very big, large-boned hound, gray with age and wrinkled and lame, and bleary-eyed.
Both boys woke up, stiff and bleary-eyed, as dawn light flooded the hotel.
I saw a bleary-eyed dope fiend going along the street the other day.
"The others come in around nine," the clerk said, yawning, bleary-eyed.
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