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clamminess

NOUN
  1. unpleasant wetness

How To Use clamminess In A Sentence

  • Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
  • And damp, as well: a kind of clamminess that clung to the skin and penetrated her clothing. If I Pay Thee Not In Gold
  • He rolled his shoulders in an attempt to shake off the disquiet, the clamminess, the feeling of reluctance and obligation. Red Wolf
  • Amidst the sweaty clamminess, Paul felt something dry pressed into his palm by the dying man.
  • She knew this feeling, that nausea, the clamminess in her armpits and the small of her back. Fly Away Home
  • The nights are still bitterly cold here and the 10 o'clock start will leave some clamminess. England look to Steven Finn to give them cutting edge against Pakistan
  • He felt the blackness return, felt its clamminess across his brow as he started to sweat.
  • He had been referred to the hospital by GP Stephen Kirkham after being taken ill and suffering symptoms which included vomiting, diarrhoea and clamminess.
  • ‘Vincent,’ Pearl touched his cheeks, shocked at the clamminess of his skin.
  • Shavenness, featurelessness, emptiness, clamminess scurfiness, formed the outward expression of a town to which people were reasonably glad to come from London in summer-time, for there was nothing in Crikswich to distract the naked pursuit of health. Complete Short Works of George Meredith
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