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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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The Rhode founder stunned in a sheer black mesh teddy with a G-string thong design and an ab-baring cutout made out of straps.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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But the department has argued the sheer volume of documents that need to be found, uploaded, reviewed, redacted and published has forced it to instead release the files online on a rolling basis, with a series of enormous document dumps over the course of several days in mid-December.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Dust ruffles may have gone the way of the dodo after their heyday in the maximalist ’80s, but the absolute best bed skirts (done up in cottagecore ginghams and frothy sateens and linens) are putting the antiquated bed dressing back on the map.—
Shoko Wanger,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 2026
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Beat egg whites and cream of tartar with a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment on medium speed until frothy, 30 seconds to 1 minute; continue beating until soft peaks form, 1 to 2 minutes more.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2026
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This stainless steel version from Bakpoco is leakproof, with a transparent, food-grade silicone lid that is BPA-, lead-, and plastic-free, and easy to clean, too.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2026
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In December 2025, researchers in South Korea claimed to have developed transparent solar windows that generate electricity during the day from sunlight and at night from indoor lighting.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
20 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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The house’s signature style revolves around hourglass silhouettes, diaphanous and decadent fabrics for modern-day Venus de Milos.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Jan. 2026
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Tapped by an artist to adapt a 1907 neo-Gothic Harlem rectory into a home and studio, meanwhile, GRT linked a series of double-height spaces with a diaphanous staircase of perforated steel, connecting indoors and out via streamlined Gothic-style windows.—
The Editors of AD,
Architectural Digest,
3 Dec. 2025
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In 2024’s wild-card game, a flimsy middle triangle of Denver’s defense collapsed in a season-ending 31-7 loss to Buffalo.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Strong winter winds collapsed walls onto flimsy tents for Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing at least four, hospital authorities said Tuesday.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
13 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 22 Jan. 2026.
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