Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dentifrice in the form of paste.

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Examples

  • Tom Piccirilli went on to win bigger battles in the literary world (he is a best-selling novelist right now), leaving behind this wretched, miserable, and yet strangely adorable hunchback of a tale, almost like a "your favorite idiot you love to hate": a nuclear tooth-paste to pollute your literary sensibilities, to warn you what to sink your teeth into and what to avoid.

    Exploring the Noir and the Grotesque 2009

  • There is a door-man who appears scruffy and uninterested but when you walked by him last night on your way in, he leaned towards you to wish you good night and you were surprised to find that his breath smelled like how your tooth-paste tastes.

    You Don't Take Names 2010

  • But Dafydd shook his head, and picked up a tube of tooth-paste.

    Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

  • He wore a gray suit and had one of those white, tooth-paste commercial smiles.

    Three Days in Movember 2009

  • If we teach our people to see through same it's harder to sell them soap, tooth-paste, wars of aggression.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Is similar to any advertising made by all and every company which sustains THEIR tooth-paste is better.

    Mindark, I’m sorry… 2006

  • His Modern Painting has colloquial animation and surprise that might have grown into a roundness and ripeness of speech that is a part of style had not ambition made him in later life prefer sentences a Dublin critic has compared to ribbons of tooth-paste squeezed out of a tube.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • His Modern Painting has colloquial animation and surprise that might have grown into a roundness and ripeness of speech that is a part of style had not ambition made him in later life prefer sentences a Dublin critic has compared to ribbons of tooth-paste squeezed out of a tube.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • His Modern Painting has colloquial animation and surprise that might have grown into a roundness and ripeness of speech that is a part of style had not ambition made him in later life prefer sentences a Dublin critic has compared to ribbons of tooth-paste squeezed out of a tube.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • His Modern Painting has colloquial animation and surprise that might have grown into a roundness and ripeness of speech that is a part of style had not ambition made him in later life prefer sentences a Dublin critic has compared to ribbons of tooth-paste squeezed out of a tube.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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