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powdery

/pou-duh-ree/US // ˈpaʊ də ri //

敷衍了事,敷粉的,粉状的,敷衍的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
    • : easily reduced to powder: powdery plaster.
    • : sprinkled or covered with or as with powder: flowers powdery with pollen.

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Examples

  • Others lamented that their porches and roofs were coated in powdery soot.

  • If you have a little more time and energy, plan out some delicious, healthy smoothie or shake recipes to mask that powdery taste and deliver maximum nutrition.

  • That syrup revolutionizes food processing because instead of a powdery sweet thing, it’s a liquid, and liquids are way easier to handle in food processing.

  • Kazakhstan has a cold winter which ensures it has powdery snow until late in the season.

  • "Then the rainiest June since the 1950s helped the spread of downy and powdery mildew" he told The Telegraph.

  • Also rising here and there in the expanse, clouds that wind skyward, spreading out in a powdery mist.

  • Then followed a long and at times a somewhat steep climb over soft powdery snow to the top of the pass.

  • This wind blew the fine powdery snow off all the crests of the ridges and it penetrated everywhere.

  • Snow began to fall now and a regular blizzard set in, the fine powdery snow being blown along the ground into our faces.

  • Here, if anywhere, the unmelted powdery substance was likely to avalanche.