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Wide-eyed and wise-looking
Answer for the clue "Wide-eyed and wise-looking ", 6 letters:
owlish
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Word definitions for owlish in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a friendly fellow with owlish looks EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep. ▪ Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother, knocking ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 resembling or characteristic of an owl 2 wise and solemn
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
Usage examples of owlish.
Hembroke saw a stoopish man wearing an alpaca coat and kid gloves, whose eyes were owlish in round glasses that magnified their size.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.
Only on closer view did he mark the starved fancy and beauty, the stale and prosy triteness, and the owlish gravity and grotesque claims of solid truth which reigned boresomely and overwhelmingly among most of its professors.
In the mirror a huge-eyed creature gazed at Janie, like a tarsier or one of the owlish caligo moths.
The standard tornado freak tended to be, at heart, a rather bookish, owlish sort, carefully reading the latest netcasts and polishing his digital binoculars so he could jump out the door and frantically pursue a brief, elusive phenomenon that usually lasted bare minutes.