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  • adjective comparative form of clammy: more clammy

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Examples

  • This one is brinyer and clammier than the red, and was my favorite.

    New England Dining: Horton’s Seafood (UPDATED) 2009

  • I thought I was going to be a little clammier that morning but actually was able to greet the group with a big smile and a warm hello.

    Practice Teaching | Aug. 16, 08 Will 2008

  • I thought I was going to be a little clammier that morning but actually was able to greet the group with a big smile and a warm hello.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Will 2008

  • I hated the part where I was choking her because I could feel her skin getting colder and clammier and it felt sooooo real!

    dream-shadow Diary Entry dream-shadow 2005

  • God, his was even clammier than mine, and he showed me the shower and the toilet like they were so special, like maybe I'd never seen plumbing before, I don't know, and he showed me'the bed.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • God, his was even clammier than mine, and he showed me the shower and the toilet like they were so special, like maybe I'd never seen plumbing before, I don't know, and he showed me'the bed.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • They put their hands into their pockets, and my hand kept growing clammier all the time.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • They put their hands into their pockets, and my hand kept growing clammier all the time.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • They put their hands into their pockets, and my hand kept growing clammier all the time.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • English, his complexion being a rich olive, his rank hair dark and rather clammy -- made still clammier by secret ointments, which, when he came fresh to a party, caused him to smell like 'boys'-love' (southernwood) steeped in lamp-oil.

    Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884

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