smothery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of smothery
Example Sentences
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"Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't," Huck says.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last papers we received say that the East is sweltering in one of those smothery heat waves.”
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
And in a few seconds, an unexpected breaking of the clouds drove thick smothery, enveloping snow across the plateau.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
It was black and dark in there, but it was warm, though a bit smothery.
From The Story of a China Cat by Laura Lee Hope
And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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