cloggy

British

/ ˈklɒɡɪ /

adjective

thick and sticky; causing clogging

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Further, he is a master of the difficult art of differentiating quoted passages from the general narrative without sounding cloggy.

From Washington Post

Will postpone description of house till another occasion; under this cloud one's ink gets cloggy and one's pen listless.

From Project Gutenberg

I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages.

From Project Gutenberg

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