pastiness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pastiness
Example Sentences
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“It aids in even browning and prevents items from sticking during sauteing, but it doesn’t impart the pastiness that regular all-purpose flour can.”
From Washington Post
Even his excessive indoor pastiness, possibly the result of spending all that time in the studio with those 100 producers, is funny, and Samberg, at heart a pasty indoor person himself, knows it.
From Time
Saliva forcefiilly oozed through the dry pastiness of my mouth.
From Literature
Putt′y-faced, having a face resembling putty in pastiness or colour.—ns.
From Project Gutenberg
IT’S mid-January and for some of us, pastiness is starting to seem like a permanent condition.
From New York Times
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