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Examples
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The physicist's face went green and puttyish and his next breath came as a moan.
Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986
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Again there came over him, as once before, the insensate desire to strike that gray, puttyish face with all his might.
The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Whereupon the little woman got so furious that she Went fast asleep, and the reader, growing interested and falling into a doze, tumbled off his chair on his head, but as his head was quite soft and puttyish, it did him no particular harm, except that the fall made him sleep more soundly than ever.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869
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At Louis Vuitton she painted models 'lips a patent cochineal red, and at Dior she embellished pouts with a spectrum of puttyish mochas and caramels.
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