Crossword-Solution: PAPERY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Papery | a. | Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PAPERY | anagram | PREPAY, YAPPER |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PAPERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like onionskin. | 1 answer |
| like paper, esp in thinness, flimsiness, or dryness | 1 answer |
| Thin or flimsy | 1 answer |
| Thin as onionskin. | 1 answer |
| Thin and dry | 1 answer |
| Thin and crackly | 1 answer |
| Like wasps' nests | 1 answer |
| Like wasp nest material | 1 answer |
| Like some wasps' nests | 1 answer |
| Like onion skins | 1 answer |
| Like onion or garlic skin | 1 answer |
| Like dried rose petals | 1 answer |
| Like a wasp's nest | 1 answer |
| Like a wasp nest | 1 answer |
| Like a hornet's nest | 1 answer |
| Having a flimsy texture | 1 answer |
| Dry and tissuelike | 1 answer |
| Thin, in a way | 2 answers |
| Tissuelike | 3 answers |
| Very thin | 12 answers |
| flimsy | 68 answers |
| Thin __ | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAPERY (5)
They came in yet greater volumes, and indolently crept across the intervening valleys, and around the withered papery flags of the sloughs and river brinks.
His yellow face was lifted in the light, with a show of white teeth, all grinning, and his shrunken, papery eyelids lay motionless over his blind eyes.
The only paper on the table should be the menu, writ plain on a handsome card." "No one can complain of papery ices here," said the Marchesa.
John Trinidade was famous for his tobacco and cigarettes, as he took great pains in preparing the Tauarí, or envelope, which is formed of the inner bark of a tree, separated into thin papery layers.
They gnaw away the papery covering to get at the larvæ, pupæ, and newly-hatched wasps, and cut everything to tatters, regardless of the infuriated owners which are flying about them.
Quotes with PAPERY (3)
I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs, each with stories or pictures more exciting and beautiful than the next, and two overstuffed chairs big enough for me to sleep in.
I sat down in the middle of the garden, where snakes could scarcely approach unseen, and leaned my back against a warm yellow pumpkin. There were some ground-cherry bushes growing along the furrows, full of fruit. I turned back the papery triangular sheaths that protected the berries and ate a few. All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines. The gophers scurried up and down the ploughed ground. There …
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his liturgy. "There's an established rite, Your Grace. Marriage must be entered into with solemnity and consideration. I don't know that I can rush--""Ten minutes. One thousand guineas." The liturgy snapped closed. "Then again, what do a few extra minutes signify to an eternal God?" He beckoned Amelia with a fluttering, papery hand. "Make ha…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).