cardboardy

British  

/ ˈkɑːdˌbɔːdɪ /

adjective

1. like cardboard, esp in stiffness, texture, or taste

   it becomes cardboardy if cooked too long

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Example Sentences

Scrawled among my notes as we suffered salt headaches: “almost cardboardy.”

From Seattle Times

My travel destinations in recent years have been far less adventurous—trips to Phoenix, California, Mexico City, and London haven’t required prep visits to Tropical Medicine centers or producing the yellow cardboardy document to border officials, and so it is lost to history.

From Slate

The cups that I sampled from beans ground the night before resulted in thin, stale and cardboardy coffee, even when I used freshly roasted beans.

From Seattle Times

Cheddar whey has a tendency to taste cardboardy, mozzarella whey is milky and whey from cottage cheese can be sour or reminiscent of cabbage broth.

From The Guardian

Google VP of Virtual Reality Clay Bavor tweeted a picture of an early controller prototype for the company's Android-based VR platform, Daydream, and as you an see, it's much more... cardboardy than the sleek controller design it unveiled at I/O 2016.

From The Verge