Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sweaty manner; so as to be moist with sweat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sweaty manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
sweaty way.
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Examples
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Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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A docked aircraft carrier in the Pacific during a lull in WWII – fights in the boiler room, and sweatily crashing through chicken wire and grass huts on the island nearby. 1950s Dublin, with working class grime and a defiant priest.
The Care of New Gamers – III – A Contenders Review « Palimpsest Games – Joe Murphy 2010
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Reports are that David Cameron is fingering his collar more sweatily by the day.1 millionThe number of unemployed young people that was reached this week!
Lucy Mangan's pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet 2011
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The protesters, some of them armed, massage one another's feet, snooze sweatily in lawn chairs and make ferocious speeches about the universal importance of one-person, one-vote.
Anti-government clashes in Thailand bring stalemate to a city and nation 2010
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He confesses he went from enjoying making off-the-cuff remarks to sweatily panicking over every hewn character for about a week, and is still too afraid to check to see if Higson's still following him.
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Now, as I stood sweatily on the curb, it was a continuous onrush of motorcycles, with a few score cars and trucks thrown in.
Tour of Hanoi 2010
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Imagine a blanket, and then imagine it with sleeves on, and then if you have time imagine it cuddled sweatily around the unshaven body of a professional blogger.
Up front: Eva Wiseman Eva Wiseman 2010
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The protesters, some of them armed, massage one another's feet, snooze sweatily in lawn chairs and make ferocious speeches about the universal importance of one-person, one-vote.
Anti-government clashes in Thailand bring stalemate to a city and nation 2010
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The protesters, some of them armed, massage one another's feet, snooze sweatily in lawn chairs and make ferocious speeches about the universal importance of one-person, one-vote.
Anti-government clashes in Thailand bring stalemate to a city and nation 2010
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