moony

Example Sentences

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There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

You should never fall in love with an investment, getting moony about how well it has done and letting the emotion of past success cloud your judgment and overcome reason.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2021

For anyone who’s followed the company from its rise to the ousting of its moony CEO Adam Neumann and the bungling of its IPO, this marks yet another crack in the company’s polished, perk-filled aesthetic.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2020

Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

I felt sorry for Travis, the youngest and most tender of the bunch, who ate alone and cast piteous, moony looks at Lula.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly