Definition of "doe-eyed" [doe-eyed]

• Having wide-open, innocent-appearing eyes: doe-eyed children gazing at the shelves of candy. (adjective)
• Credulous and unsophisticated; naive: "Many doe-eyed investors go bankrupt within a year, sometimes by expanding too fast, sometimes because of pure ignorance” ( Scott Baldauf). (adjective)

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• "Wouldn't it be wonderfully cathartic if all it took to tame that doe-eyed, imbecilic half-man -- not Charlie Sheen, we're talking about the child character Jake -- was someone who took the time to sit down with him and treat him like a German Shepard about to be euthanized?"
• "Three weeks after opening, despite tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars in radio, television, and newspaper advertising, and a big promotion by a "shocked" and doe-eyed Oprah who never imagined how poorly some schools were performing, the movie remains in limited release at a few theaters, mostly in Manhattan."
• "She's petite, button-nosed, doe-eyed, with a boyish thatching of short hair flopped over her forehead."