smothery
/smuhth-uh-ree/US // ˈsmʌð ə ri //
闷闷不乐,温馨提示,熏陶,熏蒸
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
Examples
The odor of the ointment was sickeningly sweet, and the mask gave her a hot smothery feeling.
And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.
"Well I should think the inside of a carpet-bag would be pretty smothery," observed Mollie.
In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.
No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.
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