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wispy

[wis-pee] / ˈwɪs pi /
ADJECTIVE
thin and weak
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The “Transamerica” DVD even featured a lenticular cover that transformed Huffman from a standard blonde press shot into a still from the film featuring Bree’s brunette hair and wispy bangs.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

When the Sun's brilliant surface is hidden, its faint and wispy atmosphere becomes visible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

"You can't sculpt and cast something that is..." he paused, trying to find the right word, "wispy."

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

I thought Alex was pretty cute in his light maroon jacket — the kind that’s perfect for those May gray evenings and one that highlighted his wispy blond hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

A slender, tall woman with a wispy gray ponytail emerges from backstage.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

And for crucial stretches of the game, including during a 13-1 run that turned a deficit into an insurmountable lead, backup center Mitchell Robinson manhandled the wispier Wembanyama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Loose strands, under careful edit, appeared cut and glued, creating the effect of a fuller, wispier sideburn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

I’m not quite sure why, but it becomes wispier as you age.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2019

Statoil, a Norwegian oil firm, is abandoning a name given to it almost 50 years ago to become the wispier Equinor.

From Economist ● Mar. 28, 2018

I remember we were making our way up a hillside, the early morning mists thinner now and wispier than before.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

This time Schonberg writes in The Times that in “any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

This unprecedented event was fomented inside a digitally networked community in which extraordinary claims are widely accepted on the basis of the wispiest nonsense.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021

And he disclosed only the wispiest details of his past.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2012

In any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2011

Even the wispiest bits of data are quickly fed to the entire intelligence community and in many cases to 18,000 local and state police agencies.

From Time Magazine Archive




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