What's the difference between drippy and drizzly?

Drippy


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Drizzly


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's now big enough to see Noah through all 40 of those drizzly days and nights.
  • (2) When Boris Nemtsov was shot dead, as he walked home on a drizzly Friday night in Moscow last month, Russia’s beleaguered liberal opposition realised tthe rules of the game had changed in the most shocking way.
  • (3) Agents were scattered across the property, scouring the lawn on a drizzly Monday morning.
  • (4) It was a cold, drizzly day on 6 December 1989 when a young man brandishing a firearm burst into a college classroom at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada .
  • (5) His memoirs are wholly uninformative about his motivations and, though called The Turbulent Years, make the Thatcher governments sound about as turbulent as a drizzly morning in Dorking.
  • (6) Victoria Gray remembers that when she set out to sing for the Queen's jubilee on the Thames, "it was drizzly and cold".
  • (7) It's a drizzly weekday night on the Doddington estate in Battersea.
  • (8) Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Updated at 12.15pm BST 10.59am BST There's plenty to play for on this drizzly but life-affirming afternoon at Craven Cottage.
  • (9) With weather reminiscent of drizzly British summers, locals visit the islands for some respite from the tropical heat, while tourists travel here for a completely different island experience from the rest of the Philippines.
  • (10) Equally grizzly and drizzly, equally northern and equally crime drama-y, Happy Valley explores such cheery themes as rape, suicide, drug abuse, kidnap and dreams unfulfilled.
  • (11) It takes just over an hour from Manchester, and the drive up through Lancashire is beautiful, if often a bit drizzly.
  • (12) There is a museum in downtown Bogotá, Colombia's drizzly capital set high in the Andes, where a lawyer's pinstripe suit stands on display in a glass case – pristine, but for two bullet holes in the back.
  • (13) Outwardly, it suggests a local take on the Family Fun Day episode of Phoenix Nights: small groups of locals tugging on cans of Bud Lite, the smoky aroma of such local delicacies as Boudini and pork cracklins, and parents trying to convey a sense of fun to their kids despite the underlying sense of drizzly anti-climax.
  • (14) On my final day in Fukushima, I wake up at 5am on a drizzly morning to see off Masami Takano, who is leaving his home of 30 years and his job as a chef.
  • (15) Trading Roger Moore impressions on a drizzly day in England was funny; doing it by the beauty of the Italian coast makes them seem like embarrassing uncles on a family holiday.
  • (16) It is a grey and drizzly afternoon in the town centre, and business would seem as disappointing as the Northamptonshire spring.

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