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  • adjective comparative form of gauzy: more gauzy

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Examples

  • I don't recall Kurtz devoting a column to the possibility of white male reporters producing "gauzier" portrayals of their white male subjects than a more diverse news corps might.

    Howard Kurtz's wasted opportunity 2009

  • While Politico's Mike Allen was drinking Kurtz's milkshake, Kurtz was busy writing a piece about whether "racial and gender identification" on the part of African-American women who cover Michelle Obama "produces a gauzier, more favorable portrayal of Obama."

    Howard Kurtz's wasted opportunity 2009

  • The object of the singers 'love grew vaguer; videos got gauzier.

    God and the Music Biz 2008

  • He wondered how to get his head down to kiss that soft shadow he had glimpsed; it had seemed shyer, gauzier than what he had seen in dirty photographs and drawings, the few he had seen.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • He wondered how to get his head down to kiss that soft shadow he had glimpsed; it had seemed shyer, gauzier than what he had seen in dirty photographs and drawings, the few he had seen.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • A breeze blows in from the distant sea and flutters both the terrace curtains and the gauzier material around the crib.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • But the band is at its best when it opens up and gives its gauzier tracks room to drift and evolve.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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