dewy
adjective
moist with or as if with dew.
dewiness
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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
Where there were no wounds, it had a peach-like tint, faintly damp with the dewiness of the newly dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eating a piece of rye-bread as she went, Eustacie, in her gray cloak, rode under Martin's guardianship along the deep lanes, just budding with spring, in the chill dewiness before sunrise.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
