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moony

[moo-nee] / ˈmu ni /


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There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2025

Clark is a gifted and nimble guitarist with a dexterously spiky playing style that contrasts with the moony smoothness of her voice.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2024

You should never fall in love with an investment, getting moony about how well it has done and letting the emotion of past success cloud your judgment and overcome reason.

From Seattle Times Dec. 11, 2021

For anyone who’s followed the company from its rise to the ousting of its moony CEO Adam Neumann and the bungling of its IPO, this marks yet another crack in the company’s polished, perk-filled aesthetic.

From Slate Jan. 29, 2020

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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