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Discover LudwigThe word "heavy-lidded" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone's eyes or gaze, often in a literary or poetic context. For example: "He had heavy-lidded eyes, giving him a drowsy, sleepy look".
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heavy-lidded
adjective
Having almost closed eyes
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Those heavy-lidded sages,.
Heavy-lidded, they headed over.
He blinked his heavy-lidded eyes.
Upadhya is small and slight, with a large nose and heavy-lidded eyes.
Koning is sixty-five, with a thick mustache, heavy-lidded blue eyes, and slightly shaggy hair.
I closed this week with the heavy-lidded sound of the viola da gamba.
His eyes are heavy-lidded and lugubrious, his voice low and unmodulated, his smile cautious.
Chusid, a heavy-lidded man with a gray-and-white beard, teaches historic preservation at Cornell.
Weary, heavy-lidded, and yet sort of pleased with the world.
One of them was an intense young man with heavy-lidded eyes.
The same is true of her photographic image, that of a heavy-lidded femme fatale.
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