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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.
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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.
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Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moony
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Edmund Teske slips between genres with two small, dreamy images that layer a woman’s face over the façades of old buildings, like memories that refuse to fade.
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As if that doesn’t sell a ticket already, trust that Fast’s dreamy vision of friendship, queerness and the occult is a singular experience.
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Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
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My mood might dictate a mellow classical or a nostalgic rock n’ roll journey.
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One Tree Hill star Chad Michael Murray is back on screens reviving his role as the ultimate millennial poster boy in a new campaign for Bubly promoting the brand’s new nostalgic Melted Ice Pop flavor.
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Throughout the night, sentimental videos from different chapters of Jackson's career played on the screens by the stage, along with messages from stars not in attendance like country singers Keith Urban, Zac Brown and Kenny Chesney as well as NASCAR drivers Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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The series combines potty-mouthed put-downs with more sentimental story lines.
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The sounds are chintzy and soaked in reverb, like a mawkish ’80s ballad rewritten from memory, and the whole thing slowly falls apart and fades out like an old track by the Field.
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The book’s final section, comprising a reunion at a funeral, could have been mawkish but instead is moving … A riveting tale.
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Overdo it, and your recipe becomes too saccharine.
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With a minimal, yet still impactful, pastel floral design, the rug hedges its saccharine design with ample negative space.
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Upstate, all the drippy humidity and congested traffic of the city dissolves into a placid breeze.
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Donut peaches are usually palm-sized and easy to polish off in a few drippy, delightful bites.
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That’s when the movie takes a direction that’s both maudlin in the true sense of the word and ultimately even sanctimonious regarding the heroine’s sudden redemption.
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Visits would culminate in tears and maudlin mutual reassurances.
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“Moony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moony. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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