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wrinkly

[ring-klee] / ˈrɪŋ kli /


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The breakout star of the celebrity summer-movie circuit is a wrinkly green puppet.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Every wrinkly finger, bedraggled wig and lipstick-smeared visage are a sight to behold.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

My grandmother’s plastic cover was never that wrinkly, but I have been in houses where they were pretty wrinkly, so it’s a little more lived-in, which is more my style.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

“He was a squirrely, wrinkly thing,” Richardson says.

From Scientific American • Jul. 25, 2023

Whatever it was was wrapped up in crinkly, wrinkly newspapers.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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