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  • adjective comparative form of chalky: more chalky

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Examples

  • The social commentary is almost funny but never comes off as derisive, and at some point, producers are going to have to buy stock in white face powder as Bill is getting chalkier and chalkier in every episode.

    Top Five Geek TV Shows of the Decade « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • I make his paella with arborio and no one notices the difference, even under sustained questioning, although I decide it's slightly chalkier – which could, of course be entirely the power of suggestion.

    How to cook the perfect paella 2011

  • Which, unfortunately, also meant her face was a different colour than her body, as her makeup had been done for a white person, making her chalkier than she should have been.

    I Am By Turns Ranty, Bitchy, and Delighted This Weekend kittenpie 2008

  • Which, unfortunately, also meant her face was a different colour than her body, as her makeup had been done for a white person, making her chalkier than she should have been.

    Archive 2008-10-01 kittenpie 2008

  • She saw the top card with the same green back, the delicate patterns of tree branches threaded through in gold and silver, although the colour was chalkier, clearly painted by hand with a brush rather than made by a machine.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • Trotter's sallow young face grew chalkier as he wrote, though he was unconscious of either effort or weariness.

    The Man Who Made Good 1910

  • And this creature who led him there -- this grotesque object with the chalky face and coal-black eyebrows that ran up in tall triangles to meet a still chalkier pate -- this figure with the red and black crescents on his cheeks and the baggy, spotted suit of red and white and blue and the conical hat -- who and what was he?

    The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Though your teeth are very hard and glassy looking on the surface, they are much softer and chalkier inside; this glassy coating covers only the _crown_, or free part, of the tooth, which you can see.

    The Child's Day Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • I anticipated a burly, hoppy beer, but this was a lighter, chalkier brew.

    Beervana, the Blog 2009

  • Sabelle’s face had turned an even chalkier shade of white, and perverse satisfaction filled Ice.

    Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009

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