pimply
Example Sentences
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One pimply teenage boy named Oscar explained he didn’t have the resources to pay for a lawyer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
They seemed worldly, wiser, and way cooler than our pimply selves, even though they were actually just one or two years older.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
And so I started adolescence with the wrong bras, pimply and hairy, standing for hours in the drugstore trying to figure out what I could buy in order to fix myself.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2021
For an adolescent, gossip was about currying favor, remaining on the inside of a group as a pimply teen terrified of being pushed outside.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
He recognized the pimply wizard: His name was Stan Shunpike, and he was in fact a conductor on the triple-decker Knight Bus.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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