cardboardy

comparative more cardboardy · superlative most cardboardy

1. informalResembling cardboard.

   Archie never becomes more than a cardboardy cutout figure — a well-meaning, not-too-bright social climber with a dislike of “heavy conversations,” a fellow who “wanted to wear a club tie — the right tie, not all clubs being equal.”

   2007 January 11, Michiko Kakutani, “Hurdles in Harvard Yard and the World Beyond”, in New York Times