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creamy

[ kree-mee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, cream·i·er, cream·i·est.

containing cream.
resembling cream in consistency or taste; soft and smooth.
having a yellowish-white color; cream-colored.
Informal.
1. beneficial or profitable:
  a creamy arrangement for profit sharing.
2. slick, facile, or superficial:
  His later movies are too creamy.

creamy

/ ˈkriːmɪ /

Origin of creamy¹

1425–75; late Middle English. See cream, -y ¹

I inquire if I may touch it and find the texture soft and creamy.

Calas are dense and creamy-centered, not unlike Italian arancini.

She, slightly taller, is arrayed all in white—creamy slacks and a virgin wool sweater.

The now creamy polenta was ladled onto the plates, and this most fragrant of deep brown chicken stews spooned on top.

He also has a deep, creamy voice and calm demeanor that completes his fallen-hero facade.

I remember it well; a pale, creamy-coloured paper cover, good type, good paper.

Then her cheeks began to pale, till they were tinged like the creamy plumes of the white crepe myrtle that grew in the ruin.

The terrace was walled with creamy stone, and railed about by a heavy balustrade of white magnesian limestone.

The next moment his head, under the energetic manipulation of the operator, was a creamy mass of lather.

Many of these insects would float on with the current, never able to unfold their soft, creamy-wings, and become easy victims.

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