wispy
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- Like a wisp. A pinched, wispy little man. D. C. Murray, Weaker Vessel, xi.
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- "Just how far did you make it, young man?" interrupted the wispy-haired counselor. — The Order War
- The hair became more wispy, then vanished, as a skull replaced the face that had been there moments before. — Wellspring of Chaos
- The wind picked up, ruffling his wispy orange hair. — Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- His two small wispy-haired heads looked so ancient that it seemed they might hold dim memories of the birth of the galaxies themselves. — The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- His hair was graying and wispy, almost frondlike. — The Miko
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- from wisp + -y.