gauzy
adjective
like gauze; transparently thin and light.
gauzily
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a word derived from
gauzy.
Example Sentences
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Speeches can be fonts of evocative language, barbs and gauzily veiled messages.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Reviewing the film for The Times, Sheri Linden said, “With its gauzily surreal touches, ‘Woodshock’ reflects the Mulleavys’ romantic flair for texture and embellishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2017
Even teenagers and college students are capable of looking back gauzily on what they’ve recently grown out of or projecting themselves into the future and retroactively romanticizing where they are right now.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015
Such harrowing accounts make the fictionalized David Lean movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai” — which used the building of the Burma Railway as a backdrop — seem gauzily romanticized.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
Her hat, gauzily basking with a pair of long white gloves on one of his arm-chairs, proclaimed that she had come to stay.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
