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papery

[pey-puh-ree] / ˈpeɪ pə ri /


ADJECTIVE
paper
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2024

Raise and project your voice, he was instructed, so it doesn’t sound so papery.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2023

While I generally love pantry ingredients and dried herbs and spices, dried parsley is a ghost of its former self that I liken to flavorless, papery trash.

From Washington Post Feb. 24, 2023

There was something dry and papery about it, and it had a bitter flavor.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden




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