bleary

Modifies a noun

• eye: Yesterday, he admitted: " The tummy, the bleary eyes - that's the worst picture of me I've ever seen.
• winter: London Ice Skating Spin away from bleary English winters on any of the assorted ice rinks around London.
• pundit: Bleary pundits will be summing things up and bemoaning the fact that no Brits won anything.
• dawn: A beautiful if bleary dawn gave way to a morning of indecision so we didn't get underground till noon.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Next day and still slightly bleary eyed it was time to start the conference proper.
• somewhat: So at 7.30am when Anna came down the rest of us were somewhat bleary eyed!
• rather: Josie has been really miserable; she came down with something that made her very hot and limp and rather bleary looking on Wednesday.
• still: Still bleary I heard more voices discuss my situation.
• very: We had had a terrible night and i was very bleary - i thought she seemed better and said so so he rang off.

Used with adjective complement

• arrive: As it was, we all arrived slightly bleary eyed, but dead on time.
• emerge: It was four somewhat shaken paddlers who emerged bleary eyed from the tents the next morning.
• become: My cheeks sagged, my eyes became bleary, my whole face gaunt, yellow and hideously lined.