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Sticky

adjective

(compar. stickier; superl. stickiest)

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous.

Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body.

Hot or warm and humid. Synonyms: muggy, steamy. "The steamy tropics" , "Sticky weather"

Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable. "An awkward pause followed his remark" , "A sticky question" , "In the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

Covered with an adhesive material.

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"Sticky" Quotes from Famous Books

... night. I swung my feet off the bed to arise, when my eyes fell upon the diary which rested on my night-table. It was open to the confession of Number One as if I had been reading it in my sleep. There was a strange and terrifying dread in my soul as my feet struck the floor. I felt something wet and sticky touch my toes; then I looked down. It was a woman's head staring ...

— The Homicidal Diary • Earl Peirce

... someone, panting, when the train had thundered on for about an hour. And, my word, it was hot! Besides, there were blacks and dust, and everyone began to get very grimy—specially the people who were eating bread-and-jam and sticky fruit, and the people who had to crawl under the seat to pick up ...

— Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light • Vera C. Barclay

... they made it without any more trouble than Noodles giving a last try at the friendly mud, as though wanting to really find out whether it did have any bottom down below or not. And when they took some sticks, and scraped the worst of the sticky mess off his face, Noodles promised to be a sight indeed. But Paul assured him that they would stop at the first spring they came across, in order to allow him to wash some ...

— Boy Scouts on a Long Hike - Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps • Archibald Lee Fletcher

... held, every adult toy glittering in a window, all hers for the asking. Here on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street there were Salvation Army bands and spectrum-shawled old ladies on door-steps and sugary, sticky candy in the grimy hands of shiny-haired children—and the late sun striking down on the sides of the tall tenements. All very rich and racy and savory, like a dish by a provident French chef that one could not help enjoying, even ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... Phyllis, always unlucky, had upset a jug of lemonade down the front of her dress. There was no time to change—and the wind happening to blow from the coal yard, her frock was soon powdered with grey, which stuck to the sticky lemonade stains and made her look, as Peter said, "like any little ...

— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

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