doe-eyed
Americanadjective
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having large, innocent-looking, dark eyes.
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naive; too ready to believe.
Etymology
Origin of doe-eyed
First recorded in 1930–35; doe ( def. ) + eyed
Example Sentences
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A second room contains Murakami’s take on Monet’s “Woman with a Parasol,” which is on display between two classic Murakami canvases inspired by it, one featuring a doe-eyed anime style girl, the other with one of Murakami’s signature smiling flowers sitting on a hill and staring wistfully at the cloudy sky.
From Los Angeles Times
But right in the middle of my chest, where her doe-eyed look ended up, there was a heaviness that slowed me down and stopped me up.
From Literature
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Jurin, XG’s doe-eyed leader, confesses the title is hard to translate.
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I eventually married a blond, doe-eyed beauty, a former member of the homecoming queen’s court at UCLA, who was out of my league but liked my jokes.
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And the dialogue is largely functional, Burnett never building to some grand thesis, refusing to reduce Watts to inner-city clichés or its denizens to doe-eyed saints.
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