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sandpapery

sandpapery adjective: resembling sandpaper.

Adjective

sandpapery (comparative more sandpapery, superlative most sandpapery)

  1. Resembling sandpaper.
    • TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 278
    • A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times

Forms of sandpapery

comparativemore sandpapery
superlativemost sandpapery

Origin of sandpapery

From sandpaper + -y.

Questions about sandpapery

What does sandpapery mean?
Sandpapery means resembling sandpaper.
What part of speech is sandpapery?
Sandpapery is an adjective.

Words near sandpapery in the dictionary

  1. sandpapering
  2. sandpaperings
  3. sandpaperish
  4. sandpaperlike
  5. sandpapers
  6. sandpapery
  7. sandpeep
  8. sandpeeps
  9. sandperch
  10. sandperches
  11. sandpile

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