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  • adjective informal Resembling cardboard.

Etymologies

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cardboard +‎ -y

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Examples

  • As a homebrewer, I know that oxidation of beer can give it "cardboardy" flavors, so this technology is probably useless for beer.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • I stick hair conditioner in there which reduces but doesn't eliminate them, and sometimes I add mousse, but that makes the curls kind of rigid and cardboardy.

    HAIR karenhealey 2010

  • This also had the double effect of preventing excess flour getting worked into the dough, and a tough cardboardy baked product.

    Going Out With a Bang Sarah 2009

  • This also had the double effect of preventing excess flour getting worked into the dough, and a tough cardboardy baked product.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009

  • It's a history that seems to ring hollow, though, when you're cramped in coach, eating your packet of sorry peanuts and considering whether it's worth the eight bucks for a cardboardy chicken wrap.

    Why Airplane Food Has Always Been Awful Francis Lam at Salon.com 2010

  • It's a history that seems to ring hollow, though, when you're cramped in coach, eating your packet of sorry peanuts and considering whether it's worth the eight bucks for a cardboardy chicken wrap.

    Why Airplane Food Has Always Been Awful Francis Lam at Salon.com 2010

  • So, they're kind of leathery, cardboardy kind of consistency.

    Before They Hatch: Moving Sea Turtle Eggs From Gulf 2010

  • Follow these detailed steps and you will never have a dry, stringy, cardboardy, boring bird again. ...

    Turkey Recipes Guide: 12 Recipe Ideas For Cooking Your Turkey The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • I mean, totally apart from the fact that it was like the whole Attic Project was lying there on her bed, all ready for Step 3, it was just an amazing thing to see: an enormous scrapbook covered in purple silk, with thick cardboardy pages full of faded photos and typed letters and fountain-pen-written notes.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • By comparison, the reveal of the big villain comes off as both predictable and a little cardboardy.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

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