moony

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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. 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
  • Ceiling murals in both rooms have been partly worn or scraped away, leaving a dreamy abstract pattern.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The upside, however, to sitting through this questionable season of what has been a mostly dreamy series?
    Vogue, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the end, the 77th Annual Emmy Awards served as both a nostalgic tribute to television’s rich past and a clear testament to its rapidly evolving future.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • These pants combine the comfort of barrel jeans with the nostalgic details of cargo pants, offering a functional and easy-to-wear design.
    Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Andrew Tate and the U-91 leads the standings coming into Mission Bay, although the sentimental favorite could be Dave Villwock, a longshot entering the weekend in fourth place.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Coel gets her moments to assert her character, a smooth operator who masks a surprising sentimental streak.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After a mawkish beginning, the play somewhat redeems itself through earned emotions and an ambiguous ending that begs discussion.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, jailed and banned frequently, has never allowed his work to get mawkish.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • That saccharine silliness juxtaposed with the heady themes of the plot are part of the DNA of the franchise throughout all entries and would follow Kojima to his current work on Death Stranding.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
  • At DurianBB Park in Kuala Lumpur, people taste platters of varieties of the spiky, football-sized fruit – from the saccharine sweet Musang King to the custardy Black Thorn – grown at the company’s farms.
    Amy Gunia, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Gregor: There’s like a water drippy kind of sound to it.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
  • This can make your arrangement look more natural and cover any drippy glue.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Cinderella Man is unalloyed emotional manipulation, and while the cast all dig into the maudlin hooey — Paul Giamatti is especially good as the crusty trainer — nothing here has the spark of real life.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • He’s also invested his protagonist with a self-deprecating sense of humor that keeps his pessimism from veering into maudlin territory.
    Book Marks June 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025

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“Moony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moony. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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