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papery

[pay-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

This wild child produces sweet pink or white blooms in spring followed by coin-shaped seed heads that split to reveal papery sheaths with a pearly sheen.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

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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