varnishy
- a word derived from varnish.
Example Sentences
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As he stole past the joiner's on that sunny morning, when wood was resinous and pungent of odour, he was suddenly conscious of a varnishy smell, and felt a misgiving without knowing why.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
In the gauzy and fluffy and varnishy little drawing-room Reardon found a youngish gentleman already in conversation with the widow and her daughter.
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George
Any roofed-over shed or shack, with doors or not, is what one generally has to put up with to-day, for housing his resplendent brassy and varnishy automobile.
From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
A painter, air you? you don't look it," sez I. "P'raps it's holiday time with ye," sez I, "and that makes you look so varnishy.
From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
The varnishy smell of the desks, the smell of the wallflowers at Mrs. Manzie's on the way to school, the smell of the school itself—to all these he was morbidly alive, and he loathed them.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
