humid

• The days are hot and humid, and the air conditioning isn't on yet - because it won't last. —  The Greenbelt
• The bard was wrong when he made Juliet say "what's in a name The city is hot and humid, as though it were washing-day above, and the sun's rays intercepted by wet blankets. —  Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
• But in terms of general municipal and industrial water, any great degree of calculated shortage hardly seems appropriate for a humid-zone city which has a fine river at its doorstep and happens also to be the national capital, so that a scarcity would be of national concern in a number of ways. —  The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
• This renders the place close and humid, and probably occasioned the many fevers and fluxes we were there afflicted with. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• It is at once admitted by all botanists that a moist, humid, and warm atmosphere was necessary to account for the existence of such an abundance of ferns. —  The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes

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