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pasty

adjective as in sticky

adjective as in pale

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Example Sentences

The main downside of physical sunscreen, Karen explains, is that it can leave a chalky or pasty appearance on the skin.

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So, if your wax is really pasty and stinky, it’s another thing you can blame on your parents.

Depending on where you live, Sunday’s winter weather event may have left behind up to five inches of pasty snow or nothing but bare ground.

Since The Great White Way was given that strange moniker in 1890, the majority of actors have also bore a pasty complexion.

The article includes a depressing photo of pasty nerds as evidence.

I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard.

If you met him in a bar, he might be all likkered up and decide he wants to kick your pasty, yuppie ass just for the hell of it.

No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes.

Some hidden magnetism burst from him like an aura, and his cold pasty face and light gray eyes flamed into positive beauty.

When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.

If the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a pasty mass or amalgam, as it is called, of a yellowish tinge.

A good venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my Lady, and she as much to me.

The pasty mass was dissolved in water, acidified with sulphuric acid, and filtered.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pasty, such as: adhesive, doughy, gelatinous, gluelike, gluey, and glutinous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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