liny

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Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "liny" style of his "little way in Boston" turned out, in the end, not to be a provincial flaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Time Corp., which makes 400, liny gyroscopes a month for guided missiles, is working on a plan to combine them with servomotors to control the bucking whirlybirds with a miniature autopilot.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found Copley's style too "liny," harsh and emphatic in outline but felt that could be corrected by "a sight of what has been done by the great masters."

From Time Magazine Archive

Her lips, I regret to say, were too liny, and not of the true ruby tint, but with the exception of her mouth all her features were, not to say more, good.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various