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Sticky

adjective

(compar. stickier; superl. stickiest)

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous.

Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body.

Hot or warm and humid. Synonyms: muggy, steamy. "The steamy tropics" , "Sticky weather"

Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable. "An awkward pause followed his remark" , "A sticky question" , "In the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

Covered with an adhesive material.

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"Sticky" Quotes from Famous Books

... rambles in the country and take careful notice of the ground about us, particularly if we can leave the road and walk on the footpaths across the fields. When we find the ground very hard in dry weather and very sticky in wet weather we may be sure we are on a clay soil, and may expect to find brick yards or tile works somewhere near, where the clay is used. If the soil is loose, drying quickly after rain, and if it can be scattered about by the hand like sand on the sea shore, we know ...

— Lessons on Soil • E. J. Russell

... the Monday after school was out that Todd Walters also started to work. He was selling fly-paper on commission for his friend, the druggist. It was that sticky kind, called "Tanglefoot," that promises such a pleasant path to the unwary insect, but proves such a snare and ...

— The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle • Annie Fellows Johnston

... his stinging forehead on his arms, cursing softly and crying. Finally he rolled over, pulled his foot out of the mess, and took off his shoes. They were full of mud—sticky sandy mud. ...

— The Hoofer • Walter M. Miller

... number of the buccaneers in the kitchen of the big house, where they took their supper and often sat far into the night drinking and dicing. As we drew near, indeed, I heard through the sack that covered me ('twas very sticky and fraught with the cloying smell of sugar) loud sounds of merriment proceeding from the house. Instead of driving past in the direction of the stables, the negro, obeying his instructions, pulled up his horses when the wagons came ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... the veil, and the sticky gloves from her cold hands, and all the finery of silk waist and belt, and donned her old plain blue coat and skirt in which she had arrived in Philadelphia. They had been frugally brushed and sponged, and made neat for a working dress. Elizabeth felt that they belonged to her. Under the jacket, ...

— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill

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