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doe-eyed

  [doh-ahyd]
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–adjective
1. having large, innocent-looking, dark eyes.
2. naive; too ready to believe.
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doe-eyed   (dō'īd')
adj.  

  1. Having wide-open, innocent-appearing eyes: doe-eyed children gazing at the shelves of candy.

  2. Credulous and unsophisticated; naive: "Many doe-eyed investors go bankrupt within a year, sometimes by expanding too fast, sometimes because of pure ignorance" (Scott Baldauf).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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