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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

... plaid-bordered envelopes, in which folk were invited to send contributions to the bank in New York that was the American depository. And after each performance Mrs. Lauder stood in the lobby and sold little envelopes full of stamps, "sticky backs," as she called them, like the Red Cross seals that have been sold so long in America at Christmas time. She sold them for a quarter, or for whatever they would bring, and all the money went ...

— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... bring a larger loaf than usual because our cousins had taken advantage of the fine weather to come over from Thiberzy for luncheon, we had in front of us the steeple, which, baked and brown itself like a larger loaf still of 'holy bread,' with flakes and sticky drops on it of sunlight, pricked its sharp point into the blue sky. And in the evening, as I came in from my walk and thought of the approaching moment when I must say good night to my mother and see her no more, the ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... off any cope of his butter. How he makes it, or of what materials, I dare not say. Many flavours mingle in it, some familiar enough, some unknown to me. Its texture varies too. Sometimes it is pasty, sometimes semi-fluid, sometimes sticky, following the knife. In colour it is bluish-white, unless dyed. All things considered, I refuse Gopal's butter, and have mine made at home. The process is very simple, and no churn is needed. Every morning the milk ...

— Behind the Bungalow • EHA

... painfully to his breast to feel whether the paper was still safe; but the pain of the effort was sickening, and his hand glided over something wet and warm and sticky. ...

— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn

... cave sprang up once more. He thrust both arms up into that hole and tore with his fingers. This he continued until the nails were worn away to the quick and his hands were cut and sticky with blood and dirt. ...

— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish

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