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painty
[ peyn-tee ]
/ ˈpeɪn ti /
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adjective, paint·i·er, paint·i·est.
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OTHER WORDS FROM painty
paint·i·ness, nounWords nearby painty
paint pot, paint roller, paint stripper, paint the town red, paintwork, painty, pair, pair bond, pairing, pairle, pair-oar
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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 LewisNow 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 OliphantI figured I could do with a breath of less grease-painty air.
No Great Magic|Fritz Reuter Leiber