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paint-by-num·bers

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  1. paint-by-numbersadjective

    Made from a painting by numbers kit.

  2. paint-by-numbersadjective

    By rote, without thought or creativity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of paint-by-numbers in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of paint-by-numbers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of paint-by-numbers in a Sentence

  1. Robin Tyler:

    Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.

  2. Jeff Melvoin:

    That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms.

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  • Debbie Pope Hoffman
    Debbie Pope Hoffman
    Or a precious heirloom triptic, now among my cherished possesions, produced in the 1950s by a busy mother of three, whom I miss every day. Art is everywhere, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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