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"Products that lack an antioxidant or preservative are likely to develop rancidity in the oil," he wrote, "and that can be metallic, fishy, painty, or stale-nut-like depending on the recipe."
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
The new cottages are finely designed, but they are too black-and-white and painty to group easily with the older, mossier buildings and the White Hart Inn, with its nobly ugly sign.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
That," said the Mordaunt Estate, wiping his painty hands on his knees with brilliant results, as he turned a fat and smiling face to them, "is after the R. Noovo style.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
You can say it is all very painty, the verdure; too painty; but you cannot reject the picture because of this little mannerism of the painter.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
Several hundred feet away was the boundary fence and here the correctness of his direction was confirmed by a painty smooch on the top rail where the fugitive had climbed over.
From Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
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