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- adjective Tending to
waft ;gaseous ,insubstantial .
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Examples
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And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts.
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I will demonstrate it when I get my crafty-wafty mood back.
Updates 2009
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I will demonstrate it when I get my crafty-wafty mood back.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts.
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But I see her as a tomboy, and tomboys don't tend to do impractical, wafty dresses with girly floral designs.
Doctor Who Season Five...potential serious spoiler. time_and_chips 2009
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His film has at its core a wafty story about Brad Pitt as a strict southern dad – sorry, Father – in 1950s Texas and Sean Penn as a modern-day corporate exec reminiscing about his upbringing and the death of one of his brothers.
Antisemitism, paedophilia, sex and talking beavers: Cannes film festival 2011 round-up§ 2011
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Not only could this be a matter of survival in the wafty-potential-future sense, but in the very real sense of people whose lives will be ruined by a rise in sea level.
House Points: Have environmentalists made us terrified of the natural world? 2008
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So he moved himself to the early evening, allowing wafty-haired funnyman Conan or “CoCo” to his fan to take the treasured late night spot.
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Broad is still bowling and he keeps it off stump for a while but then serves up a wide wafty thing that Akmal cuts away for two.
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The kind that just assumes the audience will be complicit in the utterly bog-standard, unsurprising bit of wafty liberal observation that is coming out of his mouth.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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