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adjective
Sweaty  adj.  (compar. sweatier; superl. sweatiest)  
1.
Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
2.
Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. "No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams."
3.
Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge."





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"Sweaty" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the ethical preacher. They are all absurd, but their different absurdities have managed to flow together into one powerful and unified convention. Our popular orators gesticulate and clamour; our professors "talk Greek;" our ethical Brutuses "explain;" and the mob "throw up their sweaty night-caps;" while our poor Caesar of Poetry sinks down out of ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... snatched at the bottle and swallowed from the neck. "Here, you need a swig. We got to git out of here, pronto. Have you scragged the gel?" He thrust the bottle at Plimsoll who drank, senses rallying by the urge of danger that emanated from the cook like the sweaty stench ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... asked the Colonel who had reached the crotch of the tree, fortunately not far from the ground and now turned a very red and sweaty face ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh
... shall gather those you finde ripe, not taking the fruit from the stalke, but nipping the stalke and fruit both together from the tree: also you shall be carefull in gathering to handle or touch the Cherry so little as may be, but the stalke onely, especially if your hands be hot, or sweaty, for that will change the colour of your Cherries, and make them looke blacke: if there be any ripe Cherries which hang out of the reach of your hands, then you shall haue a fine small gathering hooke of woode, whose bout shall be made round, and smooth, for nipping ...
— The English Husbandman • Gervase Markham
... said man had no idea of making himself agreeable to others, having only been mixed up with wars and the orgies of bachelors, with whom he did not put himself out of the way. Thus he remained stale in his garments, sweaty in his accoutrements, with dirty hands and an apish face. In short, he looked the ugliest man in Christendom. As far as regards his person only though, since so far as his heart, his head, and other secret places were concerned, he ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... marked the boy's rising color. And the sight spurred his ill-humor. "What do you do for your keep?" he demanded. "Stop pullin' your hair!" He struck Johnnie's hand down with a sweaty palm that touched the boy's forehead. "Pullin' and hawlin' all the time, but don't earn the grub ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates


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