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Sticky

adjective

(compar. stickier; superl. stickiest)

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous.

Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body.

Hot or warm and humid. Synonyms: muggy, steamy. "The steamy tropics" , "Sticky weather"

Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable. "An awkward pause followed his remark" , "A sticky question" , "In the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

Covered with an adhesive material.

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"Sticky" Quotes from Famous Books

... wide and not very edifying experience. The tactics which had started his friendship with Joanna he had learned at the shorthand and typewriting college where he had learned his clerking job—and they had brought him a rummage of adventures, some transient, some sticky, some dirty, some glamorous. He had met girls of a fairly good class—for his looks caused much to be forgiven him—as well as the typists, shop-girls and waitresses of his more usual association. But he had never met anyone quite like Joanna—so ...

— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith

... man had ventured on a sort of quagmire, and had disappeared half-way in the sticky mud. They stretched out their hands, and he rose, covered with slime, but quite satisfied at not having injured his precious entomologist's box. Acteon went beside him, and made it his duty to preserve the unlucky, near-sighted man from ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... maketh no progress unless he sticketh out his neck." But he maketh very little progress unless he pick the right time and place to "sticketh out his neck"—which can be quite a sticky problem for a man in a ...

— Wizard • Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)

... me, this is worse and worse!" thought the China Cat, as she felt the sticky stuff on her tail. "I shall never get clean and ...

— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope

... and not have his blood leap as scene after scene is brought back to him. Three bees and a fly winging their way past, with the rise and fall of their varied hums, were sufficient to renew vividly for me the blackness of night over the sticky mud of Souville, and to cloud for a moment the scent of clover and dying grass, with that terrible sickly sweet odor of human flesh in an old shell-hole. In such unexpected ways do we link peace and war—suspending the greatest weights of memory, ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

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