dank

“It was dark and dank and the children were rarely, if ever, taken outside,” Wright notes.

The night was dark and dumb, and, laden with salt scent, the dank vapor floated up from the sea.

This was the dank, fat, savage island of New Gibbon, lying fifty miles to leeward of Choiseul.

And he fought against that inarticulate misery, against the melancholy that settled upon him like a dank mist.

Then, setting spurs to his stallion, he galloped through the dank cloud without a breath of it reaching into his nostrils.

Her face, in the depths of her scooping green barége bonnet, was dank with perspiration, and scowling with indignant misery.