Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with or smelling of sweat.
- adjective Causing sweat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moist or stained with sweat: as, a sweaty skin.
- Consisting of sweat.
- Causing sweat; laborious; toilsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Moist with sweat
- adjective Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
- adjective Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective covered in
sweat - adjective having a tendency to
sweat - adjective likely to cause one to
sweat
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Examples
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Alongside about 30 Oldsmobile dealers, I once tied on a blindfold and then stumbled, sweaty hand in sweaty hand, through a cow pasture near the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
What’s Good for GM 2009
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Alongside about 30 Oldsmobile dealers, I once tied on a blindfold and then stumbled, sweaty hand in sweaty hand, through a cow pasture near the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
What’s Good for GM 2009
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A large passenger jet was parked on the tarmac, and a disordered crowd was heading toward it in sweaty haste.
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All but constantly on the verge of losing it entirely, he delivers his lines in sweaty desperation, lines like "I don't talk to ordinary people unless there's an election on."
David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat David Finkle 2010
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Alongside about 30 Oldsmobile dealers, I once tied on a blindfold and then stumbled, sweaty hand in sweaty hand, through a cow pasture near the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
What’s Good for GM 2009
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A good taleggio, Gorgonzola or Brie might be described as sweaty or slimy.
You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012
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No chubby sloppy americans in sweaty 'wife-beater' underwear.
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All, however, will be red-faced and sweaty from a surprisingly vigorous workout.
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All but constantly on the verge of losing it entirely, he delivers his lines in sweaty desperation, lines like "I don't talk to ordinary people unless there's an election on."
David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat David Finkle 2010
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Bacteria love warm, wet places, and so they grow much faster in sweaty areas.
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