Adjective : dewy tears. From Dictionary.com.
The Silk Foundation is slightly matte with a subtle dewiness, which is what you need to create the polished skin effect on the runway or for everyday. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Swift Announced as the Face of New COVERGIRL Cosmetic Line, NatureLuxe - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
The chilly air has departed, and in its place is a sense of freshness, of dewiness, of fragrance and delight. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Really old, in fact, because so many of your friends will be peeling and lasering their way to artificial dewiness. From Wordnik.com. [Can Your Skin Be Saved?] Reference
There was a latent dewiness in the air that made the clear moonlight as fresh and invigorating as a winter's morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
As for Sergeant Trotter: The touch of choirboy dewiness Moscati brings to the character initially seems an odd choice, but the manner becomes endearing. From Wordnik.com. [1st Stage's 'Mousetrap' is a whodunit worth catching] Reference
Did Miss Burridge grow roses because they had so many traits in common with her adolescent pupils -- softness, dewiness, sweetness, occasional thorniness?. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
Martin Landau plays a lonely old man, and Ellen Burstyn plays an old woman who sneaks glances at him with a dewiness that announces, old-folks romance ahead!. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Film Festival highlights, including 'The Hurt Locker,' 'JVCD,' and '$9.99' | EW.com] Reference
But if you love this look and your skin is oily, prepare the skin with a clay mask, a mattifier toner, and a stop-shine product before applying the tinted moisturizer to keep the skin matte naturally, but fake it by adding the dewiness with tinted moisturizer. From Wordnik.com. [Best in Beauty] Reference
I had expected to gloat over a certain dewiness of her eyes, a patient drooping of her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel] Reference
Grant wavers between strident steeliness and sappy dewiness, making Sarah seem almost schizophrenic. From Wordnik.com. [TheaterMania.com] Reference
There was a natural shimmer to it, a dewiness and a pollen of youth that enveloped her like a caress. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
She awakened suddenly and looked up at him, the rosiness of sleep upon her cheeks and the dewiness of it upon her eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of the Desert] Reference
Sweetest Face the face of a toddler looms as large as the moon, his eyes brimming with the dewiness that precedes or follows tears. From Wordnik.com. [Express Milwaukee] Reference
Matte doesn't necessarily mean flat - instead think of it as sheer or satiny - and it definitely tones down any dewiness or sparkle. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
A refreshing spritz of this stuff helps me wake up, locks in the serum and moisturizer I just applied and gives a natural dewiness to the makeup. From Wordnik.com. [The Non-Blonde] Reference
She had hair like golden-rod and eyes as blue as flax, and a complexion of such health and cleanliness and dewiness as blooms only on trained nurses. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girl] Reference
A gel tends to be soothing and moisturizing while giving the appearance of dewiness, with little or no color, explains Chase Aston, international makeup artist for The Body Shop. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
There is in both the same freshness and dewiness of the herbage; the same balmy softness in the air; and the same pure and lovely blue sky, with white fleecy clouds floating across it. From Wordnik.com. [Our Village] Reference
"Overhead the tree-tops meet" -- possess, independent of the meaning of the words and their poetic charm, a freshness, dewiness, morning ravishment to which it is difficult to find an equal. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
Combining the benefits of a top-notch facial, using wrinkle-combating Meredith creams, with a skin-plumping oxygen treatment, it gives even the most weary of faces on-the-spot dewiness and lift. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The morning dewiness and calmness of the garden had a curious effect, as they walked hastily through it, out of sight of the confusion on the lawn; everything looked so blue and pale, especially Violet, who came down to meet them. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
To pass out from the flooding light of the morning, to feel all the dewiness drunk up by the thirsty, insatiate sun, to see the shadows slowly and swiftly gathering, and no starlight to break the gloom, and no home beyond the gloom for the unhoused, startled, shivering soul, -- ah! this indeed is terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
That the blood does, on such occasions, flow more copiously into the brain, no one can doubt who is at all acquainted with the cerebral sensations which the orator himself experiences at the time, or who witnesses the unusual fullness and flush of his countenance, and the dewiness, flashing, and protrusion of his eye. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference
And if you missed last night's Top Chef, Gawker's Harlequin romance recapper Joshua David Stein will fill you in on the torrid inaction, which found Padma and Nigella Lawson recreating Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon's daylight nocturne in The Hunger in their minds, before retiring into fluffy bathrobes for room service breakfast, where the contestants, one by one, provided them sustenance and stood agog at their dewiness in the arid inferno that is Las Vegas. From Wordnik.com. [The Trembling of the Breakfast Trays as They're Set Before the Queens: James Wolcott] Reference
And no longer a beautiful, fresh-faced girl of that age and dewiness that makes older men become foolish over them, "Iris added shrewdly. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
The dewiness had disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
And dewiness of morning; he can see. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
And when again your dewiness he kisses. From Wordnik.com. [Poems 1817] Reference
A dewiness?. From Wordnik.com. [You Live Once]
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