filmy
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The only ones I tend to avoid are neutral vegetable oil, which can make the whole thing feel a little filmy, and coconut oil, unless that is a flavor you specifically want to chase.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Retired high court judge Anjana Prakash told HW news that his comment was “dramatic, filmy and laughable and it had brought down the level of judiciary”.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
This filmy mosaic selectively permits charged lithium ions to cross during discharge and controls movement of electrons that supply the battery's power.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Dressed in a filmy floral-print shirt and smartly tailored trousers, he discussed Frank Sinatra, great hair and the death of England’s queen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Amil and I would fight over the pit, loving to gnaw every bit of fruit off it, the filmy stickiness coating our hands and face.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The walls and floors were made of the sheerest, filmiest spider's-web, woven into a thousand delicate patterns.
From Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers
She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Sitting opposite each other like this it is quite unnecessary to draw the filmiest veil over our souls, or to hide a corner of them from one another.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
Her rose maids of honor, in filmiest laces, Loitered and lingered in shy woodland places; And white-vested lilies were ever at prayer; Their vespers, the perfume that sweetened the air.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
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