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Waxy   /wˈæksi/   Listen
Waxy

adjective
1.
Made of or covered with wax.  Synonym: waxen.  "Careful, the floor is waxy"
2.
Easily impressed or influenced.  Synonyms: impressible, impressionable.  "An impressionable age" , "A waxy mind"
3.
Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.  Synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant.  "A pliant young tree"
4.
Having the paleness of wax.  Synonyms: waxen, waxlike.  "The soldier turned his waxlike features toward him" , "A thin face with a waxy paleness"






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"Waxy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rose, previously so talkative, had lapsed into silence. She had eaten heartily, but all the color had left her face, which had assumed a waxy pallor under her heavy hair, which was still damp. And when she wished to ascend the ladder herself to indicate how some ornament should be placed, her legs suddenly failed her, she ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea. Besides, amber is a hard, transparent, brittle, odorless substance, used for mouth-pieces to pipes, for beads and ornaments; but ambergris is soft, waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely used in perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair-powders, and pomatum. The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for the same purpose that frankincense ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... got Jimmy Sinclair at last. Only six months ago 'e went ter Sunday school reg'lar, an' butter wouldn't melt in 'is mouth. Well, if smokin' cigarettes, an' spittin', and swearin' was 'ard work, they'd all die rich men. There's Waxy Collins. Last week 'e told 'is father 'e'd 'ave ter keep 'im till 'e was twenty-one 'cause of the law, an' the old fool believed 'im. An' little Joe Crutch, as used ter come 'ere beggin' a spoonful of ...
— Jonah • Louis Stone

... h'I h'ever did see," she pronounced with satisfaction, "H'as pretty as a wax figger now—h'only a thought too waxy." ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley



Words linked to "Waxy" :   flexile, wax, colorless, plastic, flexible, waxiness, easy, colourless, unimpressionable, susceptible, spinnable



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