clamminess
/klam-ee/US // ˈklæm i //UK // (ˈklæmɪ) //
喧闹,喧哗,喧嚣,喧闹声
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adj.形容词 adjective
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clam·mi·er, clam·mi·est.
- : covered with a cold, sticky moisture; cold and damp: clammy hands.
- : sickly; morbid: She had a clammy feeling that something was wrong at home.
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Examples
This combination made my skin feel clammy, particularly on my lower back and around my shoulders, where my pack rested.
More penetrating than its clamminess was the thought that Madame de Ferrier was out in it alone.
A clamminess, such as others feel at the approach of death, spread over my brow and neck.
Though the root-meaning seems rather that of clamminess or adhesiveness, as found in Sansc.
They felt it in the cold clamminess of the atmosphere, in the quiet peace of the long corridors.
Unless the sea is broken by the wind, there is about it just before dawn a peculiar creeping clamminess.
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