drippier; drippiest
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drippy romance novels that are apparently intended for the terminally lovesick
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Bernhardt, who starts with spray paint on upright canvases, then puts them on the floor and adds watery acrylics, which give her work its drippy panache, chalks it up to plain coincidence, though of course there’s nothing plain about what either of them do.
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Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
Known for drippy paintings of words, phrases and geometric shapes, Pendleton will show his new paintings Composition and Movement, as well as a new single-channel video work, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?).
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
This is a newer direction for Devlin, who’s made drippy mirror frames and squiggly lamps, although much of his work does sit solidly in the world of feeling enchanted and otherworldly.
—Natalia Torija, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
Then there’s people who can do drippy music but don’t have any bars.
—Maurice Garland, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2024
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Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
Known for drippy paintings of words, phrases and geometric shapes, Pendleton will show his new paintings Composition and Movement, as well as a new single-channel video work, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?).
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
This is a newer direction for Devlin, who’s made drippy mirror frames and squiggly lamps, although much of his work does sit solidly in the world of feeling enchanted and otherworldly.
—Natalia Torija, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
Then there’s people who can do drippy music but don’t have any bars.
—Maurice Garland, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Drippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drippy. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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