cardboard-boxy

comparative more cardboard-boxy · superlative most cardboard-boxy

1. rareResembling or characteristic of a cardboard box.

   On the nose there is some maturity but the wine lacks a bit of grace and charm. There is something dry, pinched and cardboard-boxy about it.

   1995, Clive Coates, “Pauillac: Latour”, in Grands Vins: The Finest Châteaux of Bordeaux and Their Wines, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 61

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   […] here where I must cope with a world only as cruel / as the people, themselves cruelly exploited / in this cardboard-boxy housing many would give / an eye-tooth for […]

   1997, Chris Bendon, Novella: A Novel Poem (Salzburg Studies in English Literature; 168), Salzburg: University of Salzburg, →ISBN, page 159

   Is there anything I can do to get my 319 to sound better? I remember reading about someone placing felt type material inside the mic but is there anything else I can do? It does seem to have this cardboard-boxy kinda sound to it.

   2003 August 25, mine12u, “Oktava 319 mod?”, in rec.audio.pro (Usenet)