Thesaurus / paper-thin
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synonyms for paper-thin
- delicate
- flimsy
- slim
- translucent
- wispy
- attenuate
- attenuated
- rarefied
- refined
- sheer
- slight
- diaphanous
- filmy
- gossamer
- permeable
- rare
- see-through
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- unsubstantial
- wafer-thin
antonyms for paper-thin
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How to use paper-thin in a sentence
Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEA small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTThis has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYBits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSThe Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS."Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSA little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAnd the absence of paper and so forth, rendering notebooks costly and rare, made a large amount of memorizing necessary.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSIn the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTThen the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO PAPER-THIN
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