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dewy

[doo-ee, dyoo-ee] / ˈdu i, ˈdju i /












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But don’t mistake the perfect blowout and dewy skin for softness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

I was sitting in Circle Clinic in the central Seoul district of Gangnam, surrounded by photos of impossibly dewy Korean faces with even better necks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

The 30-year-old sat near his booth at Seoul Beauty Week, pulled out a stick of his brand — named Blup — and gave his upper lip a dewy pink glow-up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

The slippery leaf surface is made worse in damp or dewy conditions – but in heavy rain it clears away.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024

Outside, on the dewy grass, with the first rays of sun creeping across the island, the Ghost shows me how to climb trees silently.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

But until recently, the main game in town was the Jonathan Club, which was founded in 1895 and barely registered among the young, dewier set.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2019

I know about his father’s stock-market losses and his own estrangement from dewier and more smoothly conformist classmates at Harvard’s business school.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2017

The lunar glow of Gheorghiu's voice sounds wan, and her intonation often sags; never having developed as an interpreter, she can only compete with our memories of her dewier prime.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013

Basically, Plotz believes that the male characters on Nashville are far fresher and dewier and prettier than the female characters.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2013

I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson

And steady, patient organizing, beginning at the dewiest grassroots: thus could a single small organization, from a distance and working with minimal resources, working in stealth, take over an organizational Goliath.

From Salon ● May 14, 2016

Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012

Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician.

From Time Magazine Archive

The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith.

From Time Magazine Archive

A heavy dew was falling, odours of Eden rose from the earth, colours glowed in the sky, and the dewiest and richest green was all round. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird




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