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
In consequence of which his buttons became more importunate of public notice than before, with the exception of two or three about the region of the waistband, which modestly withdrew into a creasy retirement.
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
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
The baby made a little nestling motion, and its creasy eyelids dropped.
From The Yates Pride, a romance by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Clothes gets wet, and clothes dries on us, same as un did on the sheep afore us; else they gets stiff and creasy.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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