flossy
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I’m not a flossy man, so I don’t need a car that peacocks too loudly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Plump pods and flossy seed heads signal the end of this year’s growing season while holding the germ of the next.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
The meat is shredded into flossy, slightly chewy tendrils that are gently charred around the edges on the grill and piled into aluminum to-go containers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2019
With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Before it had been tacky and flossy and drab.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Back on dry land, the flossier parts of L.A. have new “lifestyle clubs,” some invitation only, all of them evidently requiring a matchmaking interview that sounds like facing a New York condo board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
By the evidence of these two songs, Thank U, Next the album will be a heel turn compared with its predecessor—snarkier and flossier.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until something flossier came along, everyone agreed that the marriage of "Toodie" to David was Washington's biggest wedding of the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parents no longer built special ballrooms on their country estates, or spent $10,000 for decorations, or hired 50-piece orchestras, or gutted Broadway's flossiest nightclubs for entertainment.
From Time Magazine Archive
You'll be in at the finish, Dan," said London Bill; "an' for the others, pick out a dozen of the flossiest coves you can find.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
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