painty

[ peyn-tee ]

adjective,paint·i·er, paint·i·est.

of, coated with, or soiled with paint: a painty finish; painty overalls.
having a crudely or clumsily painted surface: The stage set consisted chiefly of painty scenery.

Origin of painty

¹

First recorded in 1865–70; paint + -y¹

Other words from painty

paint·i·ness, noun

Words Nearby painty

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How to use painty in a sentence

He admitted that fanlights, and white shutters against rosy brick, were more homelike than a painty wooden box.
Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
Now the least notable of them, the most painty, the most slovenly, would look somehow like a shadow of Robert.
At His Gates, Vol. 3(of 3) | Margaret Oliphant
I figured I could do with a breath of less grease-painty air.
No Great Magic | Fritz Reuter Leiber

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