pastiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastiness
Noun
  • Over the water the sky is glazed now with an Arctic pallor.
    Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This at a time when a sluggish box office and a lack of employment in onscreen entertainment has already given the business a sickly Nosferatu-like pallor.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sinners is a horror film with vampires who represent the relationship between whiteness and the blues.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Colonial Americans equated whiteness with British heritage, for example, excluding Germans from that category.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Pastiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastiness. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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