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 doesn’t push it, but as a study in evaporating dewiness, she’s a guaranteed heartbreaker.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
For this production — directed by a keen-eyed Scott Elliott and featuring a capable, callow-seeming young cast whose ostensible dewiness disappears when the blood starts to flow — deserves your full attention.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 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
The chilly air has departed, and in its place is a sense of freshness, of dewiness, of fragrance and delight.
From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederic S. Cozzens
