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  • adjective comparative form of swampy: more swampy

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Examples

  • But even in the swampier northwest, there were compensations.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • But even in the swampier northwest, there were compensations.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • The high moral ground he had picked out for himself, he was finding, was swampier than he had supposed.

    Promises, Promises 2009

  • It used to be a lot swampier, in fact, before Saddam blocked off the water.

    Firedoglake » Bursting the Bubble of American Military Empire 2006

  • Cresses grow wonderful well in the swampier bits and the worms cannot eat it, so grow cress, no matter what else ye fancy growing and Stores can give ye.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Cresses grow wonderful well in the swampier bits and the worms cannot eat it, so grow cress, no matter what else ye fancy growing and Stores can give ye.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • For a year or two, it bears well, but once you have broken the clay layer with plows, it just gets swampier year after year.

    Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000

  • While the illustrations are at times a bit swampier than the text demands, Darwin for Beginners is a superb introduction to a very tricky subject.

    Darwin's Revolution Lewontin, Richard C. 1983

  • Wherever possible they trod in his tracks, as no sticks or twigs remained to crack beneath their feet; the holes in the swampier ground they of course avoided.

    The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Elliott Whitney

  • The swampier the swamp and the greater its extent the safer they were.

    The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness 1890

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