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as in gauzy
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
filmy cobwebs covering the entryway to the cellar
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as in sheer
very thin and easy to see through
those filmy curtains don't block out enough light
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Recent Examples of filmy
Electronics When your television screen get dusty or your touch-screen electronics get filmy, Schrader cautions you to keep the sponge away.
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
The line between triumph and tragedy is incredibly thin, and 100 Foot Wave conveys that simultaneous elation and danger with every swooping drone shot of a surfer cutting a line through a swell and every splash of filmy foam on the camera lens.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
The touch screen was desensitized with a filmy layer of grease, the cumulative tapping of many dirty hands.
—Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
The line between triumph and tragedy is incredibly thin, and 100 Foot Wave conveys that simultaneous elation and danger with every swooping drone shot of a surfer cutting a line through a swell and every splash of filmy foam on the camera lens.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
The touch screen was desensitized with a filmy layer of grease, the cumulative tapping of many dirty hands.
—Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filmy
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These aren’t just gauzy tales from the past.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Jan. 2026
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In ’50s England, her professional academic lesbian shows up in a provocatively sexy outfit with a gauzy bodice.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
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El Capitan is a roughly 3,000-foot sheer granite wall — more than twice the height of the Empire State Building — in the northern valley of Yosemite National Park in California.—
Melissa Gaffney,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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The sheer size and scope of the site presented a range of logistical challenges ahead of the reopening.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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When valuations are stretched and sentiment is frothy, there is a stronger chance for pullbacks to be more severe.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2026
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In winter, the frothy surf turns to soft, lapping waves and camels lumber down the mountain for a dip.—
Anna Zacharias,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Jan. 2026
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The scrutiny from the EU comes after Grok sparked a global backlash by allowing users, through its AI image generation and editing capabilities, to undress people, putting women and girls in transparent bikinis or revealing clothing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Senator Jon Ossoff calls on other Georgia leaders Fellow Georgia senator, Jon Ossoff, asked GOP leaders to join him in demanding a full and transparent investigation.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Perverts By turns a budding chart sensation, a political firebrand, and an enthusiastic cataloguer of cryptids, Ethel Cain interrupts a stream of gossamer pop, folk, and rock records with Perverts, a droning rejection of the accessibility of her 2022 Billboard top-ten debut Preacher’s Daughter.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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No matter how far-fetched the premise or gossamer-thin the story, the musical invites (compels) us to go along with its essential surrealism, to travel to that dream space where everyday life suddenly moves and sounds deliriously out of this world.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
7 May 2020
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On the Ann Demeulemeester runway line-up from which Lipa’s jacket was plucked, the military uniform piece was styled with a diaphanous cream slip dress and the same combat boots.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2026
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At first, the trend saw all of your favorite celebrities following a very specific outfit formula, pairing their diaphanous long skirts with blazers, and only blazers.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
19 Jan. 2026
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Early warning is rudimentary and community liaison mechanisms are flimsy.—
Obi Anyadike,
semafor.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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More than 500 Club Brugge supporters made the journey of almost 3,700 miles to watch Tuesday’s tie with the trio in the stands stripping down to the flimsy luminous green costume before being taken away by police.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
23 Jan. 2026
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Notably, the seven-inch vinyl will be pressed on translucent ruby vinyl, a departure from the singer’s signature purple.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2026
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Colorful, translucent magnetic blocks in all manner of sizes and shapes make bringing a vision to life easy.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Filmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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