dank

Simmering with anger and frustration, Marie is packed off to the dank, depressing convent, a place of famine, starvation and nuns who are not altogether welcoming.

Woe betide anyone working out next to me, sharing my dank microclimate.

Neither do “dampish,” “dank” or “wettish,” which are the other alternatives offered by Merriam-Webster.

Often the start and finish of portages happen in dank, mosquito-infested wetlands that no one enjoys.

She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.

It was dark, dank, the walls charcoal-colored, the feeling of a cave.

Bodies in mortuaries, bodies in ponds, bodies under houses, and in dank boarding houses.

Next thing he knows, the rebel is waking up in a dank cave centuries later.

“It was dark and dank and the children were rarely, if ever, taken outside,” Wright notes.

She sank back on the dank floor of the cave and buried her face in her dirt-stained hands.

The dank vapours of Covent Garden are sweet in the nostrils of many a cockney reveller.

He charged up the canyon, fumbling in his parka for more shells, and crashed through dank high brush into a shadowy clearing.

Barnacles had fastened upon the hull, and long tresses of green, dank seaweed hung trailing from the iron paddle-wheels.

His face, which bore traces of more than common beauty, was now white and pinched; his hair hung dank about his forehead.