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Recent Examples of moony
Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
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Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
—Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
—Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moony
Adjective
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This fragrance is designed to evoke memories of a dreamy summer on white beaches with crystal water.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Comments The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s dreamy 1999 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel, is timeless.—
Sezin Devi Koehler,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Han deliberately juxtaposed high-tech elements like holograms against retro settings like Euljiro, a neighborhood known for its nostalgic atmosphere.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2025
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My Best Friend’s Wedding, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and The Wedding Planner are pretty alarming in hindsight as well, and yet, people somehow are able to speak about them with nostalgic affection.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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After some sentimental speeches, Bracco and Macli exchanged rings.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The sentimental old-school racer who now sees his legacy not just in trophies, but in the people holding his hand in Victory Lane.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These kinds of pictures are intended to provoke—to catch the eye with their mawkish absurdity and uncanny-valley optics.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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The flashbacks are dreamy without becoming mawkish, and Gemma’s scenes in Lumon are nightmarish without feeling untethered or otherwordly.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Amy’s work is uplifting, but not in a saccharine way.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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Channel childhood nostalgia with this 100% cotton bed skirt, featuring a rosy stripe that’s sweet but not saccharine.—
Shoko Wanger,
Architectural Digest,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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At least there’s a lot of blood, and all of it is the drippy orange-brown stuff that gorehounds have come to see as a mark of integrity rather than the bright red digital garbage that looks all too gross for a very different reason.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Bernhardt, who starts with spray paint on upright canvases, then puts them on the floor and adds watery acrylics, which give her work its drippy panache, chalks it up to plain coincidence, though of course there’s nothing plain about what either of them do.—
Nicole Phelps,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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An almost but not quite maudlin contemplation of the inevitability of death.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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The trick to that is going in without bitterness and going in without any kind of maudlin demonstrations of emotion.—
Taylor Mims,
Billboard,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In general, reducing your intake of sugary drinks is a good move for your health, said Auerbach.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
16 Apr. 2025
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The 75-cent tax on deliveries and the 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, neither of which were approved this year, are two more powerful examples of the same aggressive search for revenue.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Moony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moony. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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