Thesaurus / bleary
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An electrician looked under the porch to check the electrical box and saw bleary bear eyes blinking back.
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I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery.
BEFORE ADAMJACK LONDON
He was not a pleasant object to look upon, with his straggling hair, and his blotched face, and his bloodshot bleary eyes.
GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEON
He was a very big, large-boned hound, gray with age and wrinkled and lame, and bleary-eyed.
TALES OF LONELY TRAILSZANE GREY
The bleary red eyes glanced at her keenly, and appeared to appreciate her disappointment.
THE LEADER OF THE LOWER SCHOOLANGELA BRAZIL
He paused with a grimy finger in the middle of a column of figures, and peered at Gipsy with a pair of red, bleary eyes.
THE LEADER OF THE LOWER SCHOOLANGELA BRAZIL
The man at the wheel lifted a bleary eye and blinked; then, unsteadily touching his forehead, answered: "Fe' dow'-shtairs, shir."
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When he awoke it was broad daylight and the dimly burning bulb of the reading-lamp shone with a futile bleary light.
THE REST HOLLOW MYSTERYREBECCA N. PORTER
He stood waiting, under the gleam of the bleary light, detained more by curiosity than by the grip upon his arm.
THE REST HOLLOW MYSTERYREBECCA N. PORTER
The drunken uniformed brute raised his bloodshot, bleary eyes and took Jefferson in from tip to toe.
THE LION AND THE MOUSECHARLES KLEIN
WORDS RELATED TO BLEARY
- ambiguous
- amorphous
- amphibological
- bewildering
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- doubtful
- dreamlike
- dubious
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- faint
- fuzzy
- generalized
- hazy
- ill-defined
- impalpable
- imprecise
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- inexplicable
- lax
- loose
- misunderstood
- muddy
- nebulous
- obscure
- perplexing
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- shadowy
- superficial
- tenebrous
- uncertain
- unclear
- undetermined
- unexplicit
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unsettled
- unspecified
- unsure
- all in
- beat
- bleary
- bone-weary
- bushed
- crippled
- dead
- dead tired
- debilitated
- disabled
- dog-tired
- done for
- done in
- drained
- effete
- enervated
- fatigued
- frazzled
- had it
- kaput
- limp
- out on one's feet
- outta gas
- ready to drop
- run-down
- rundown
- sapped
- shot
- spent
- tired out
- wasted
- weak
- weakened
- weariful
- weary
- worn
- worn out
- worn-down
- worn-out
- all in
- beat
- bleary
- bone-weary
- bushed
- crippled
- dead
- dead tired
- debilitated
- disabled
- dog-tired
- done for
- done in
- drained
- effete
- enervated
- fatigued
- frazzled
- had it
- kaput
- limp
- out on one's feet
- outta gas
- ready to drop
- run-down
- rundown
- sapped
- shot
- spent
- tired out
- wasted
- weak
- weakened
- wearied
- weary
- worn
- worn out
- worn-down
- worn-out
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