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- adjective
comparative form ofwispy : morewispy
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Examples
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More crucially, the rough lining the fairways is significantly shorter and wispier this year – a vast improvement for which mother nature, and not gentlemen of the governing body, can take credit.
The Open 2011: Phil Mickelson hails revamped Royal St George's 2011
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What really annoyed me, though, was the single page entitled “Feminizing Animals”, which states several requirements for making a girl version: wispier whiskers, fluffy tail, bows or flowers or other accessories, and the must-have almond-shaped, tilted eyes.
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This time around – by an accident of the weather rather than by design – the rough is wispier and nowhere near as long.
The Open 2011: Phil Mickelson hails revamped Royal St George's 2011
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This week's news is like watching someone with a termina disease who's been managing to cover it up, compensate, bring the belt in a little tighter or something, and all of a sudden it's progressed too far to keep it hidden, and you look at the wan face and thinning waist and wispier voice and suddenly realize the end is really coming.
Print Media The Brillig Blogger 2010
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• Leek—certainly wispier than any I am used to buying, but pungent and flavorful all the same.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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His hair looked wispier than it did this morning, his face more sunken.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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• Leek—certainly wispier than any I am used to buying, but pungent and flavorful all the same.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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This week's news is like watching someone with a termina disease who's been managing to cover it up, compensate, bring the belt in a little tighter or something, and all of a sudden it's progressed too far to keep it hidden, and you look at the wan face and thinning waist and wispier voice and suddenly realize the end is really coming.
Archive 2010-03-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010
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• Leek—certainly wispier than any I am used to buying, but pungent and flavorful all the same.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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• Leek—certainly wispier than any I am used to buying, but pungent and flavorful all the same.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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