papery
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- paperiness noun
Etymology
Origin of papery
Example Sentences
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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
The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024
Raise and project your voice, he was instructed, so it doesn’t sound so papery.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023
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
Gabe had leaned down and kissed the papery cheek of the silent woman in the bed.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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