pie-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of pie-eyed
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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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
"There's too much money involved now for players to get themselves too pie-eyed," says David King, who runs Darts501, a darts information website.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 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
Lots of other great writers who didn’t receive the Nobel laurel were just as pie-eyed.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
He's a fool, that's what he is, a soft pie-eyed fool!
From Six One-Act Plays by Margaret Scott Oliver
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