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as in thickish
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as in velvety
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Recent Examples of creamy
When used in perfumes, nutty notes like pistachio add a creamy, uplifting quality that evokes a favorite childhood dessert without coming off as overly saccharine or juvenile.
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Venus Wong, Refinery29, 1 Apr. 2025
When the oxtail meat is fork-tender and the tendon is very soft and creamy (taste a piece!), add 2 cups of milk.
—Vicky Hallett, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
Fenty Beauty’s creamy, lightweight blush supplies a sheer, buildable flush in 12 impactful shades, from soft tangerine to violet.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2025
The cooked cereal maltiness is well-balanced by the sweetness, creating a full-bodied, smooth, and creamy mouthfeel with a distinct weight.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Venus Wong, Refinery29, 1 Apr. 2025
When the oxtail meat is fork-tender and the tendon is very soft and creamy (taste a piece!), add 2 cups of milk.
—Vicky Hallett, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
Fenty Beauty’s creamy, lightweight blush supplies a sheer, buildable flush in 12 impactful shades, from soft tangerine to violet.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2025
The cooked cereal maltiness is well-balanced by the sweetness, creating a full-bodied, smooth, and creamy mouthfeel with a distinct weight.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creamy
Adjective
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Plus, whisked eggs and lemon juice, tempered with a little hot broth to prevent scrambling, add ultra-velvety texture to the soup without using any cream.—
Kate Merker,
Good Housekeeping,
6 Jan. 2021
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Made of microfleece yarns, the warm blanket feels soft and velvety, according to reviews.—
Isabel Garcia,
Peoplemag,
17 Nov. 2022
Adjective
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This silky moisturizer is clinically proven to shorten your skin’s adjustment period to retinoids while reducing dryness with a barrier-restoring blend of lipids—specifically ceramides, natural cholesterol, and fatty acids.—
Emily Orofino,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2025
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The velvet texture keeps even silky fabrics in place.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The viscous substance coats the attacker, immobilizing or fatally compromising them by clogging joints, mouthparts and spiracles.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The microbes go on to form a viscous coating known as a biofilm, which is resistant to antibiotics.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This one’s accompanied by satiny potato purée, and the sauce comes from one of two pots in which the week’s bones simmer all day and night.—
Lindsey Tramuta Thibault Montamat,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2023
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If a demi-shine, satiny finish is more your speed, then swipe on a coat of Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lipstick.—
Cai Cramer,
Peoplemag,
2 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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On the engineering side, the plan is to design a better speaker, targeting the ideal frequency response for a turbid ecosystem, and doing so in a way that drives down the cost.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Nov. 2024
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Grass carp make the water more turbid; stiltgrass and common reed can block sight lines and reduce property values; and sea lamprey are a shocking sight when they are attached to sport fish.—
Caitlin Looby,
Journal Sentinel,
12 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Next, Zoe Kravitz attended the Saint Laurent presentation in a silken grey dress with a camel tone fur coat.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
14 Mar. 2025
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For the Cantonese quail that recently replaced the lamb lengua as Addison’s meat dish, Bradley and his staff came up with a quail egg-drop soup (featuring silken tofu and shiitake mushrooms) that’s served before the main event of quail with a five-spice sauce.—
Andy Wang,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Instead, it was strangely decorated with long downy feathers—making the newborn bird look like a dangerous caterpillar.—
ByErik Stokstad,
science.org,
20 Mar. 2025
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Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This churning involves the storms dredging up ammonia in some places and hurling it far into the Jovian depths as slushy hailstones in others.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Marginally cold air should limit snow accumulation to just a few slushy inches across some of the highest elevations.—
Daniel Peck,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Creamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creamy. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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