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
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
This wild child produces sweet pink or white blooms in spring followed by coin-shaped seed heads that split to reveal papery sheaths with a pearly sheen.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022
Papa, Amil, and I take turns helping her walk and she leans on us, her papery arm resting across our shoulders.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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