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Clammily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a clammy manner.

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Clammy


Definition:

  • (Compar.) Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The faces are clammy masks, a shocking number are teenagers.
  • (2) But, all told, nobody comes close to the clammy glamour of Farage.
  • (3) Crop impactions (solid, hard masses of seeds) caused by seeds of clammy weed (Cuphea carthagenensis) were found in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) killed during the 1965-71 hunting seasons in Louisiana.
  • (4) Fall in blood pressure and cardiac volume, congestion of blood in the region of the pulmonary vessels and signs of reduced circulation in the body periphery (severe physical weakness, apathy, cold and clammy skin, oliguria) determine the clinical picture of cardiogenic shock.
  • (5) Recent days have been relatively warm and without rainfall, with the temperature not dropping below 5C, but the thick mist clinging to the low fields and wooded hills has added to the clammy chill.
  • (6) The US president had thrust out a clammy right paw, grabbed hold of his arm with his left hand and then pumped it enthusiastically for rather longer than was comfortable.
  • (7) Fewer still would be convinced by this excuse ludicrously flipped on its head: the Tories never expected to win, and believed their pledge to slash social security by £12bn would be diluted amid the clammy handshakes of a backroom coalition deal.
  • (8) Systolic hypotension, oliguria, metabolic acidosis and a cold clammy skin are late signs of shock.
  • (9) Meanwhile it's getting clammy in here, as Melissa F appreciates the fact I am "not afraid to use the words "saucy" and "hot", and I could only imagine the sight of that rather large Georgian thigh you mentioned since I watched them on the weekend vs.
  • (10) Venous blood gives information relative to the extremity it drains and may be misleading if the extremity is cold, clammy, or underperfused.
  • (11) Conscious level was III-1-2 and she was cold and clammy.
  • (12) Austrian film Michael is so matter-of-fact about evil, I initially saw little merit in it but I've found its clammy grip impossible to shake.
  • (13) The paddock at the Sakhir circuit was in the clammy grip of a grim apprehension on Thursday night following the flight home of two members of the Force India team and amid reports of escalating violence in the capital, Manama.
  • (14) One slides up to it at dawn through mists and past the clangor of shipyards,” wrote EM Forster of the sea approach to Belfast, describing the “clammy ooze” that clung to the city’s pavements and dour terraces of red brick, and the immense City Hall rising above the confusion of mean streets and Protestant chapels ‘like a wardrobe in a warehouse’.
  • (15) His answers come coated in clammy, apologetic, Woody-ish reservation: "Well, um, often.
  • (16) It has a damp, undramatic clamminess to it, and sits uneasily in any stream of words, the ultimate onomatopoeic dead end, free of connotations, meaningless, banal.
  • (17) Perhaps a dressing room of potent alphas for decades rendered beta, shackled by the Bordeaux-stained Uncle Joe, sensed that the new incumbent would not be so ferocious with the boot kicking and the hair-drying and, like over-parented teens suddenly in the care of clammy-palmed au pair, decided to kick up a bit of a fuss.
  • (18) Our hero is Dylan (Johnny Flynn) – hair of Boris Johnson, charm of a used swab – and, after receiving his diagnosis, he is taking us on a reverie through his clammy sexual history.

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