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.

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Origin of painty

First recorded in 1865–70; paint + -y¹

Related formspaint·i·ness, noun

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Now the least notable of them, the most painty, the most slovenly, would look somehow like a shadow of Robert.
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Margaret Oliphant
He admitted that fanlights, and white shutters against rosy brick, were more homelike than a painty wooden box.
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Sinclair Lewis