(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.
Sweaty
Definition:
(superl.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
(superl.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
(1) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
(2) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
(3) In the celebrity groupie category, Rihanna’s tweets for her “German boyz” were upstaged by Angela Merkel’s sweaty embrace of the national team.
(4) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
(5) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
(6) All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is a sweaty ménage à quatre among the bow rosin and scoresheets.
(7) We want to have a powered bike so you don’t get hot and sweaty.
(8) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
(9) "I'm particularly proud as a sports presenter to be nominated alongside an artists and an arts broadcaster because I think it's easy to think of sports being just about sweaty jockstraps and balls," she said.
(10) Unfortunately, our salon is opposite a Bikram yoga studio so you get the chancers who come straight from class and expect me to wax them sweaty.
(11) He’s one of the UK’s most dedicated club DJs, capable of holding a room in sweaty excelsis for eight hours without pause.
(12) Because the special effects were filled in later, we had these large, sweaty prop guys in braces dancing about with cut-out horses and penguins to show us what was going on.
(13) He has captured the elements of nascent rock scenes in New York, London and California: the sweaty fans, spilt drinks and crumbling venues.
(14) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(15) The Conservative former cabinet minister David Mellor may be boycotted as a passenger by London blacks cabs after he was secretly recorded calling his driver a “smart-arsed little git” and a “sweaty, stupid little shit”.
(16) By the same token, a football cup final is just a bunch of overpaid sweaty men chasing around a field after a bolus of stitched leather.
(17) When you are all sweaty and grimy in the heat of the city, this is the most delicious and refreshing thing ever – and super cheap.
(18) As to my own holidays, after getting married last June, my new husband and I hopped on a jet to Florence for some extremely sweaty sightseeing, followed by a more relaxing stop in rural Tuscany for walks round perfect medieval towns, like lovely Volpaia, red-wine hangovers and over-enthusiastic carb-loading.
(19) Depp appeared to respond to Joyce in a black joke he told at this year’s Venice film festival: “I killed my dogs and ate them, under direct orders of some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.
(20) He was there for the drinking sessions , the ups-and-downs of Farage’s mood swings and even accompanied him on a series of steam-room trips in an attempt to stop the Ukip leader looking so sweaty on television.