Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sandy character: as, the sandiness of the soil.
  • noun Sandy character as regards color: as, sandiness of hair, or of complexion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.

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  • noun The property of containing or resembling sand.

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  • noun a texture resembling that of sand

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Examples

  • Shah Jahan had mentioned, briefly, to one of his nobles that he wished for the Yamuna never to dry into its summer sandiness in front of the tomb.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Shah Jahan had mentioned, briefly, to one of his nobles that he wished for the Yamuna never to dry into its summer sandiness in front of the tomb.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Shah Jahan had mentioned, briefly, to one of his nobles that he wished for the Yamuna never to dry into its summer sandiness in front of the tomb.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • I smell the spiciness of the weeds and the sandiness of the shore.

    Glimpse Carol Lynch Williams 2010

  • I smell the spiciness of the weeds and the sandiness of the shore.

    Glimpse Carol Lynch Williams 2010

  • In a way he was like Fulk, but with her father's vivid red-gold coloring blurred into drabber sandiness, the clean cut features coarsened, a scar seam along his jaw line adding an ugly touch.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • The soil in which tobacco thrives best is one which has the following qualities: dryness, warmth, richness, depth, and sandiness.

    Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902

  • Forrest's hair was light brown to chestnut, while Graham's carried a whispering advertisement that it would have been almost golden in its silk had it not been burned almost to sandiness by the sun.

    The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

  • "It is not a bad little place," she said practically, "when one has grown accustomed to its sandiness."

    Roden's Corner Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • That hair of hers never could be gray, you know, it's too self-opinionated in its sandiness.

    Vixen, Volume I. 1875

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