dewy
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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
Make-up tutorials demonstrate how to get her baby-pink cheeks and dewy skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
The slippery leaf surface is made worse in damp or dewy conditions – but in heavy rain it clears away.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
In the sketch during the Weekend Update segment, Yang performed as a "dewy" hippo influencer and echoed lines from several of Roan's TikToks where she addressed her fans about respecting boundaries.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
Like a good huntsman, she was careful to preserve the young; she was “the protectress of dewy youth” everywhere.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician.
From Time Magazine Archive
And all the way not one rough bur, But the dewiest, freshest grasses, That whisper thanks to every foot that passes!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
