as in curly
having the curving shape of a wave or of many waves
She has wavy blond hair. wavy lines
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Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
Bergen’s favorite set of Little Guys is one created for Season 3, where the faces float across the screen in a wavy motion, leaving a smear trail behind them.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
In the bar, for example, the studio commissioned a Sicilian ceramicist to create the bar and tabletops with a slightly wavy texture.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024
The wavy, sinuous forms that appear in O’Keeffe’s contemporaneous abstractions are confined only to the sky here, where rows of clouds threaten to cover the moon.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
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Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
Bergen’s favorite set of Little Guys is one created for Season 3, where the faces float across the screen in a wavy motion, leaving a smear trail behind them.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
In the bar, for example, the studio commissioned a Sicilian ceramicist to create the bar and tabletops with a slightly wavy texture.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024
The wavy, sinuous forms that appear in O’Keeffe’s contemporaneous abstractions are confined only to the sky here, where rows of clouds threaten to cover the moon.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Wavy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavy. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.
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