Adjective : clammy hands. ,She had a clammy feeling that something was wrong at home. From Dictionary.com.
She said to him, clammily, "Let's start a family.". From Wordnik.com. [Billy the Squid] Reference
It swirled clammily around me and I couldn't see four feet in front of my face. From Wordnik.com. [When Eight Bells Toll]
He was tired and his »« trousers were sticking clammily to the backs of his legs. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
The quilted padding beneath was soaked through with sweat, and clung to him clammily. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
He would still wake up, drenched in sweat, the damp sheets twisted clammily about his legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
There was a water fog that hugged me clammily, and sounds echoed in it as in a metal canopy. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The heat of the ride had gone, and I remember feeling my shirt hang clammily on my shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
Jerry, white and clammily sweating, knew that in a few more minutes he would have to dismount and run. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvis Latte] Reference
But I felt the twinge in my arm as I drew on my shirt, and my own blood stuck it clammily against my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Chase the Morning]
With a sinking of his stomach, he knelt; his fingers felt along a woman's contours, the skin clammily cold. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
From the ground I sat on it rose, from the wind it pierced, from my wet clothes it clung clammily to my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
It is still in our room somewhere, and is bound to make himself clammily felt at some ungodly hour of the night. From Wordnik.com. [The wildlife I keep under the bed] Reference
I would have sweated at the thought of so much confined explosive power if I hadn't been sweating clammily already. From Wordnik.com. [Rat Race]
In the sidelong light that came from the kitchen, she could see the sweat gleam clammily on his cheeks and the bridge of that absurd nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
But she could do little about her hair, which was sticking to her scalp, and even less about her soaked clothing, now adhering clammily to her skin. From Wordnik.com. [Rome's Revenge]
You imagined him clammily cold to the touch, like a snake. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
Although the hot winds struck them here, his skin felt clammily cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Fiddler] Reference
His black hair, wet with perspiration, clung clammily to his temples. From Wordnik.com. [Not Pretty, but Precious] Reference
His undergarments, that had been wet with perspiration, clung to him clammily. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference
Then something clammily touched my face, and with a bound I had the lantern going. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
As heaven preserve her, says slip, the smell in that room grew like an open grave, clammily putrid. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
And in the exact degree of his growing aggression, Mr. Tollman quailed and became clammily moist of brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
You can see the bear's-grease not only on Tongs's head but on his hands, which he is clapping clammily together. From Wordnik.com. [John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character] Reference
"Yes ... sir," whispered Soames, his hair clammily adhering to his brow and beads of perspiration trickling slowly down his nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Claw] Reference
Downtown estate real is southeaster clammily on a thysanura extended to aras fluid waldheim of san luis ngultrum deciliter torso. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Black Swan may not be the most profound statement about ballet, but, more often than not, it feels claustrophobically, clammily visceral. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It was clammily cold and miserable. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference
His clothes hung about him clammily. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men and a Maid] Reference
Which clammily has settled on the frame. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Again comes that rattle, and I shiver, clammily. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland: Chapter 25] Reference
Oozing so clammily. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
They hung clammily. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
There's something so piously, clammily, smarmily, smugly, unwholesomely, hypocritically ewwwww about the whole idea. From Wordnik.com. [No Sex Please, We're Gittish] Reference
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