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Meaning of stainy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

That easily stains

rare

Examples

“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.”
“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”
“And because it's a stay-put cream, not a stainy liquid, there's no drip, no dread, no mess, no guess to it.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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