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flossy

[flaw-see, flos-ee] / ˈflɔ si, ˈflɒs i /




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I would lay flowers at the grave of Ago, a flossy Italian restaurant on Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood, gone in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

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

Biggie actually scored two posthumous No. 1s, the only artist to do so—three months after “Hypnotize,” he was back on top with his flossy, Puffy and Mase–supported, Diana Ross–sampling summer jam “Mo Money Mo Problems.”

From Slate Jun. 28, 2018

Another variety bloomed in the curves of its bones, flossy and sheer and caramel-colored.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2018

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

Unlike its flossier rivals, sensible, flat-heeled, B. H. & G. talks in folksy, conversational style to the middle-income family, which it advises how to do almost everything.

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

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

From Leningrad to Baku, the Russians rolled out their flossiest Red carpets last week and strove to outdo the welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one of Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flossiest kind of thing they got is only ten cents a order.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber




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