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
The dry feeling now left him for one that was hot and smothery, seemingly caused by having on too much clothing.
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
The tree, as she described it afterward, seemed to give way behind her, and she fell backward into soft smothery darkness.
From The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels
"It's your set, smothery pessimism that hurts so, Selma," Paula declared intensely.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.
From Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower
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