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waxy
adjective
Made of or covered with wax
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adjective
Made of or covered with wax
“Waxen candles”
adjective
Easily impressed or influenced
“An impressionable youngster”
adjective
Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
“A flexible wire”
adjective
Having the paleness of wax; - Bram Stoker
“The poor face with the same awful waxen pallor”
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Waxen candles
Careful, the floor is waxy
An impressionable youngster
An impressionable age
A waxy mind
A flexible wire
A pliant young tree
The poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
The soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
A thin face with a waxy paleness
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