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 in a few seconds, an unexpected breaking of the clouds drove thick smothery, enveloping snow across the plateau.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Sleep on a porch, or in a room with windows on two sides wide open, and the average living-room or office begins to feel stuffy and "smothery" at once.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
"It's your set, smothery pessimism that hurts so, Selma," Paula declared intensely.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
The odor of the ointment was sickeningly sweet, and the mask gave her a hot smothery feeling.
From The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
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