creasy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of creasy
Example Sentences
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Treva Johnson, 78, grew up eating leather britches and creasy greens that she foraged with her grandmother.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2016
His thin, creasy Inverness cape was thrown back, displaying evening dress.
From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas
She had crinkly white hair, and she always wore a string of gold beads around her creasy neck.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
For eyebrows he had two little patches of reddish stubble; for moustache, what looked like a bit of discoloured tow, and scraps of similar material hanging beneath his creasy chin represented a beard.
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George
Perhaps she thought of Wilford, of whom she had been very fond, for she pushed her chair toward him and then held up her fat, creasy arms for him to take her.
From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane
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