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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.
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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.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
Her outfit, a filmy belted jacket with puff sleeves, did a little of both.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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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
Her outfit, a filmy belted jacket with puff sleeves, did a little of both.
—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for filmy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filmy
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Stylistically, these books are often surreal and oneiric, with the gauzy texture of childhood reverie.
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The light, gauzy fabric is airy enough to double as a swimsuit cover-up.
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The Emmys’ producers passing up on even the slightest possibility of a Werner Herzog acceptance speech is sheer lunacy.
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For a few weeks, concerns about skyrocketing housing costs and gentrification, brought on by the city’s increasing popularity as a place to settle down, are taking a back seat to the sheer fun of international soccer.
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His look also stands out due to his unique and frothy red beard, and colorful tattoos across his entire torso.
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The bold bedroom trends of the past 10 years—think high-glam furniture, frothy bedding, and stark color schemes—are giving way to simpler and softer rooms with an emphasis on warmth.
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This contrasts sharply with Ben Bernanke's transparent regime, which established explicit inflation targets and regular communication to enhance predictability and anchor expectations.
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Companies can prepare workers through reskilling, but also by being transparent in changes that may happen to labor as a result of automation, both for better and for worse.
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But a gossamer jacket tossed over a swimsuit on a breezy evening?
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The type of memory flashbacks that are shot at knee level, gauzy and out of focus, with a gossamer visual touch to conjure whispering, buried emotions of the past.
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Dion’s look appeared to be made out of a slightly sheer material, showing off her legs through the diaphanous fabric.
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That spirit is exemplified by Ford, a gregarious hostess who moves through the various groupings of women in a diaphanous full-length blue dress, introducing Godfred to a group of attendees and hugging both first-timers and her OGs enthusiastically.
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Using flimsy or degradable sealants that allow bats to reenter.
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Even the most memorable new character, Forky (Tony Hale)—an endearingly daffy piece of plastic cutlery with a tendency toward self-harm—could only reinforce the sense that we were being served a load of flimsy, disposable goods.
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Nymphs are small and translucent.
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There’s the striking translucent shell of the $2-billion Intuit Dome.
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“Filmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmy. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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