pie-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of pie-eyed
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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“My goal was always to be a more unifying force, and, probably, I was a little pie-eyed about it,” Gilbert said in an interview.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2018
Virtually from the moment they started writing songs, Jagger and Richards were drawn to darkness: certainly, they were better at depicting decay and decadence than delivering pie-eyed hippy beatitudes.
From The Guardian • May 17, 2018
And no era is presently being gazed upon with more pie-eyed approbation than the waning years of the twentieth century.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 4, 2016
Hunt is apparently portrayed as a swashbuckling playboy, a link to an age of certainty - real and imagined - of roistering gentlemen amateurs, living out the dreams of pie-eyed schoolboys.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2013
He's a fool, that's what he is, a soft pie-eyed fool!
From Six One-Act Plays by Oliver, Margaret Scott
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