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
And you might still be handing about the Rossetti �clairs in that smothery little place if I had not rescued you from your bondage.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith
"I can tell by how it is right now, that it isn't going to get all smothery an' sweatin's here; whoohoo it's so good, Mickey!"
From Michael O'Halloran by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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 Brehm, George
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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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