as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
she worried that her husband was very ill when she saw his doughy complexion
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Recent Examples of doughy
Everyone will love the soft, doughy texture and the sprinkling of seeds or salt on top.
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Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2025
As for the kolaches, the Thomas family puts their own spin on these doughy pastries that originally came over with Czech settlers in the 1800s.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Baked Bites are sweet, doughy bites made with real chocolate chips; a great alternative to soft cookies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Food extruders, which have been producing breakfast cereals, pasta, snacks, and pet foods for decades, use high pressures and temperatures to squeeze a doughy mixture through a tube.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
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Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2025
As for the kolaches, the Thomas family puts their own spin on these doughy pastries that originally came over with Czech settlers in the 1800s.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Baked Bites are sweet, doughy bites made with real chocolate chips; a great alternative to soft cookies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Food extruders, which have been producing breakfast cereals, pasta, snacks, and pet foods for decades, use high pressures and temperatures to squeeze a doughy mixture through a tube.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doughy
Adjective
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Three weeks after that hit that sent a crowd of 75,261 at Empower Field into a pallid silence, Bryant is ever the same.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2026
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In other words, our complexion is looking pallid, our skin is dry, and our overall appearance is just a little blah at the moment.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Egg yolks can range in color from pale yellow to deep orange.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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Think pale hues with a sober gray tint or tranquil neutrals.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Here are details on mouth-watering apple pies that are worthy of a holiday feast, and the pasty pies filled with spongy chunks of dry apple that are hard to chew.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
26 Nov. 2025
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Because Teddy believes that the woman sitting before him, freshly shorn and covered in pasty white lotion, is not of this Earth.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Doughy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doughy. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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