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
"It's your set, smothery pessimism that hurts so, Selma," Paula declared intensely.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
The ground sloped precipitously; and I was holding back by the underbrush lest the bank led to water when an indistinct sound, a smothery murmur like the gurgle of a subterranean pool, came from below.
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
Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
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
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