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Drizzly   /drˈɪzli/   Listen
Drizzly

adjective
1.
Wet with light rain.  Synonym: drippy.  "A wet drippy day"






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"Drizzly" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them to another one cold, drizzly night, in a raucous voice, with low intonations of the gutter. The dimly felt horror and despair and pathos of it sent us away shivering to our Passy omnibus as fast as our ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... hours. It was therefore a slow train by which Geoffrey Tudor and his new friend travelled; so, though the distance from London was really short, it took them fully two hours to reach their destination. And two hours on a raw drizzly November morning is quite a long enough time to spend in a third-class carriage, shivering if the windows are down, and suffering on the other hand from the odours of damp fustian and bad tobacco ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth

... the clouds from the east, crowded and jagged as blocks of ice; each cloud as it passed over sprinkled cold rain; behind it rushed the wind and dried the rain again; after the wind again a damp cloud flew by; and thus the day by turns was cold and drizzly. ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

... of a morning when the canvas of the sailing-boats stands out startlingly white against the drizzly sky and the smoke from the stacks of the steamers takes on an accented coal-black, and, drooping, trails low in a murky wake. Rather a dull setting at this early hour; but not sufficiently dull to check the vivacity of the actors in ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly



Words linked to "Drizzly" :   drizzle, wet



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