Waxy
['wæksɪ] or ['wæksi]
Definition
(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Typist: Marion
Examples
- There was another stretcher by the side with a man on it whose nose I could see, waxy-looking, out of the bandages. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I wonder what sort of a cheque I shall have at Waxy's. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His black beard, now streaked with grey, seemed to spring out of the waxy flesh of a corpse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It would cheer him up more than anything if I could make him a little waxy with me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Waxy came down to ratify the deeds--Lord Southdown gave away his sister--she was married by a Bishop, and not by the Rev. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He lay there, his face waxy gray against the cement sidewalk, his hands bent under him as they had been in the car. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A cool, waxy, blown-out woman, who had never lighted well. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Edited by Albert