pastiness

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Even his excessive indoor pastiness, possibly the result of spending all that time in the studio with those 100 producers, is funny, and Samberg, at heart a pasty indoor person himself, knows it.

From Time

Putt′y-faced, having a face resembling putty in pastiness or colour.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

IT’S mid-January and for some of us, pastiness is starting to seem like a permanent condition.

From New York Times

But she is attracted by "the sullenness, the stylistic belligerence, the aggressive pastiness and deliberate potato- sprouting-in-the-cellar lack of health."

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years in the White House have greyed his hair, accentuated the pastiness of his complexion, deepened the lines in his round boyish face, so easy to caricature, so hard to paint.

From Time Magazine Archive