papery
Americanadjective
adjective
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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Beverage and food cartons — despite their papery appearance — are composed of layers of paper, plastic and sometimes aluminum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
One after the other, we popped the papery pods and shook the seeds into our palms.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
While I generally love pantry ingredients and dried herbs and spices, dried parsley is a ghost of its former self that I liken to flavorless, papery trash.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
He was all angles and bones and papery skin, like a cricket.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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