spatulate

• “Curved on top, perfectly spatulate nails (a sign of intuitive insight), a healthy shell pink, crowning long, slender pianist fingers.”

  Fictionaut: Anhedonia (excerpt)

• “ He noticed for the millionth time that her fingertips were slightly spatulate, as if her body needed to touch more, feel more than other people.”

  Fictionaut: The Secret Animal

• “Her hands are spatulate and flat-nailed, pale, like the rest of her.”

  Fictionaut: Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods

• “Her spatulate fingers tapped the floor plans of 5 Curzon Close.”

  Simon & Schuster: Naked Cruelty

• “If we no longer understand a word they are saying, then we may want to turn to those still willing to call a ‘spade’ a spade rather than a ‘fabricated long-handled domestic or industrial spatulate tool designed to lift and move material from one place to another’.”

  Archive 2008-03-09

• “Viz inspected each wing in turn, men his enormous, formidably clawed feet, lastly the broad, spatulate tail.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “Broad spatulate leaves of olive and black backed the green bloom.”

  Fictionaut: Shopgirls

• “His arms were long, his hands huge, with spatulate, magnetic fingers and the soft, unerring touch of a poolshark.”

  Fictionaut: LIGHT FINGERS

• “He tells us that a character dug in the dirt with “the tines of his stubby and spatulate fingers.””

  2007 January 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “With two spatulate hands the handling-machine was digging out and flinging masses of clay into the pear-shaped receptacle above, while with another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and blackened clinkers from the middle part of the machine.”

  Simon & Schuster: The War of The Worlds

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