: having the eyes dimmed and watery (as from fatigue, drink, or emotion)
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Expect bleary-eyed reflections on his long career and hopefully some all-star cameos.—Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 The Arabic harmonies, sung pristinely, are a clever pairing for a genre already so steeped in bleary-eyed mystique.—Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026 Adult Swim viewers became part of a late-night collective bearing witness to clandestine artifacts anyone who went to bed at a reasonable hour would only hear about from their bleary-eyed friends.—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026 The crypto casinos weren’t like Las Vegas, where high-stakes poker players gambled in rooms separate from the bleary-eyed slots addicts.—Cecilia D'anastasio, Bloomberg, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bleary-eyed