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clamminess

/klam-ee/US // ˈklæm i //UK // (ˈklæmɪ) //

喧闹,喧哗,喧嚣,喧闹声

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    clam·mi·er, clam·mi·est.

    • : covered with a cold, sticky moisture; cold and damp: clammy hands.
    • : sickly; morbid: She had a clammy feeling that something was wrong at home.

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Examples

  • This combination made my skin feel clammy, particularly on my lower back and around my shoulders, where my pack rested.

  • More penetrating than its clamminess was the thought that Madame de Ferrier was out in it alone.

  • A clamminess, such as others feel at the approach of death, spread over my brow and neck.

  • Though the root-meaning seems rather that of clamminess or adhesiveness, as found in Sansc.

  • They felt it in the cold clamminess of the atmosphere, in the quiet peace of the long corridors.

  • Unless the sea is broken by the wind, there is about it just before dawn a peculiar creeping clamminess.