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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
She was trying to feed her illusion of adventure by staring at unfamiliar houses . . . drab cottages, artificial stone bungalows, square painty stolidities with immaculate clapboards and broad screened porches and tidy grass-plots.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
Bewilderment spread like a gray mist across the painty features of the Mordaunt Estate.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Isn't it all gloriously workmanlike—the bare walls and smudged doors and the painty smell, too?
From Miss Pat at School by Ginther, Pemberton
The moment he inhaled the gassy, painty, dusty odor behind the scenes, he breathed like a prisoner set free, and felt within him the possibility of doing or saying splendid, brilliant, poetic things.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert
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