dewiness
- a word derived from dewy.
Example Sentences
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She’s no longer prone to dewiness; she’s fully present onstage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
She doesn’t push it, but as a study in evaporating dewiness, she’s a guaranteed heartbreaker.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
What hits you first is the dewiness of Fawn Ledesma's Juliet, the lovestruck maiden of the House of Capulet.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2012
His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had expected to gloat over a certain dewiness of her eyes, a patient drooping of her lips.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
