Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spotted; shaded or modeled by means of minute dots applied with the point of the brush or in a similar way.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stipple .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a pattern of dots
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Examples
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Lilith smiled, and it was a cruel expression stippled in moonlight and shadows.
Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008
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"stippled," it is covered with fine dots made by a graver directly on the surface of the metal after the plate has been etched and the wax cleaned off.
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a great if literal example of this type of treatment with its branded 'stippled' surface, but other brands also use the perception of the material use to borrow product values.
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"stippled" the ceilings of the White House with interns.
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A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid.
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Ten vocabularies scumbled inner hello, stippled wit black inc.
The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011
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In that place of darkness and great light, of absolutes and essences that are far removed from the stippled, reddish, purplish hurts of this existence, divine justice shines through.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In that place of darkness and great light, of absolutes and essences that are far removed from the stippled, reddish, purplish hurts of this existence, divine justice shines through.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Accordingly, Wolverton's illustrations, done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight.
Boing Boing 2009
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Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake.
A life in books: Lauren Child Sarah Crown 2010
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