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- adjective Made from a
painting by numbers kit . - adjective figuratively By rote, without thought or creativity.
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Examples
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These figures give us the paint-by-numbers picture of a systematic, organized bank mortgage racket that enriched the banks, robbed the public of its wealth and is now going unpunished.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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These figures and stories give us the paint-by-numbers picture of a systematic, organized bank mortgage racket that enriched the banks, robbed the public of its wealth and is now going unpunished.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Justice by the Numbers: Chasing Immigrants While Bank Criminals Go Free RJ 2011
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For better or for worse, Men's paint-by-numbers stories appear to be trucking right along as though Sheen's firing was just a bump in the road or, more accurately, the train track.
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He at first refused, displaying the sort of high dudgeon I imagine Picasso would show if asked to complete a paint-by-numbers.
Cold Fusion 2009
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A few original sketches by Bret Blevins, Min Ku, and Bill Galvan, not to mention some He-Man paint-by-numbers my grandpa did back in the day, hang above the shelf, along with a Garth Ennis signed Preacher poster and a David Letterman signed glossy (though I think an intern really signed that one, since I mailed away for it).
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Also, after having watched the pilot of In Plain Sight, which was incredibly paint-by-numbers, I have decided that I am tired of cop heroines who are Tough But Vulnerable, and I want some who are Tough But ...
mrissa: What I Want On TV, Part N of X mrissa 2010
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Part of the problem is Gifted's creators pegged their paint-by-numbers biography to an event — his attempt to separate conjoined twins — inadequate to the purpose.
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Unfortunately, this trend seems poised to continue for the foreseeable future, as ChessClub and I continue to engage in paint-by-numbers threesomes.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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Also, after having watched the pilot of In Plain Sight, which was incredibly paint-by-numbers, I have decided that I am tired of cop heroines who are Tough But Vulnerable, and I want some who are Tough But ...
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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Don't get me wrong: He makes perfect sense as a guitar-strumming crooner, but those performances are always so paint-by-numbers that I inevitably want to reach for the fast-forward button.
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