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CLAMMY
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Irregular inflected forms: clammier , clammiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unpleasantly cool and humid
Example:
dank rain forests
Synonyms:
clammy; dank
Classified under:
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
clamminess (unpleasant wetness)
Context examples:
You are a precious set of people, ain't you? said Uriah, in the same low voice, and breaking out into a clammy heat, which he wiped from his forehead, with his long lean hand, to buy over my clerk, who is the very scum of society,—as you yourself were, Copperfield, you know it, before anyone had charity on you,—to defame me with his lies?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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