damp
adjective
slightly wet; moist.
damply
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a word derived from
damp.
Example Sentences
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“The Delacorte just got the green light to be completely rebuilt,” he said in a nearby Italian restaurant, where we had retreated, damply.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
My rain jacket has soaked through and my sweater is damply clinging to my shoulders.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2018
"What a shame, then," he writes, "that the animation is so workaday and the final denouement so damply familiar."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2015
Darrell D'Silva is glittering and reptilian; Niall Ashdown ingratiates damply.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
There was a thin, grey mist everywhere, it seeped damply through his clothes.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
