paintless
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a word derived from
paint.
paintnouna substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
Example Sentences
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A shot made from atop that design flourish would technically count as being “from the logo,” even though this would be a paintless patch of parquet in every other arena.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2019
A March 28, 1966, Observer article described the house as: “a monstrous, paintless, rotting, rattling, sinister, sagging, gap-windowed … Realtor’s albatross.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2016
I walk among the ancient sculptures that we leave fragmented and paintless even though we could try to restore the vivid polychromy they originally possessed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2016
They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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