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comparative more stainy · superlative most stainy
- rareThat easily stains
June 21, 2015, Richard Clayton in Financial Times, The Strokes, Hyde Park, London — review Possibly in a Fat Elvis-gone-to-art-school phase — hanks of hair dyed splodgy red and stainy yellow — he bawled his lyrics in his characteristic drawl.
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The cacao and almonds are poured into the hopper, and very soon a stainy, tacky chocolate sauce oozes out of the spout— which has been sprinkled with sugar so that none will stick and be wasted
1984, Organization of American StatesAnd because it's a stay-put cream, not a stainy liquid, there's no drip, no dread, no mess, no guess to it.
1961, LIFE, volume 50, number 18
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stainy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stainy
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