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Bleary   Listen
adjective
Bleary  adj.  Somewhat blear.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bleary" Quotes from Famous Books



... before him with bleary eyes. He did not seem to have heard. But suddenly screwing up his eyes, straightening out his lips and opening ...
— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak

... her dress was so very rusty that it seemed to be made of iron-filings. Her cheeks were the color of unburned coffee-grains or of underdone gingerbread; her nose was long; her eyes, were small and bleary; her protruding lips wrinkled up as she spoke, and displayed her poor yellow old tusks; her scant hair was dirty gray, her forehead was bald, her neck was scraggy: she was particularly and pathetically ugly. Her dress bagged about ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

... her worries. She was awakened by the noisy entrance of her spouse. He was hardly recognizable. She thought at first that her eyes were bleary with sleep, but it was his face that was bleary. He was what a Flagg caricature of him would be, with the same merciless truth in ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... made in our faces, and refuses to go. Our secret sins defy us from the hideous furrows they have cut in our cheeks. Each impure thought has chiseled its autograph deep into the forehead, too deep for erasure, and the glassy, bleary eye adds its ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

... or three hundred words, when the general plan and purpose of the burlesque had developed, when the names of Longfellow, Emerson, and Holmes began to be flung about by those bleary outcasts, and their verses given that sorry association, those Atlantic diners became petrified with amazement and horror. Too late, then, the speaker realized his mistake. He could not stop, he must go on to the ghastly ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine



Words linked to "Bleary" :   bleary-eyed, hazy, tired, blurry, blear-eyed, blear, foggy, fuzzy, indistinct, muzzy, blurred



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