dampish
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The weight of a dampish plot hangs on the young mother's efforts to get away from baby long enough for an occasional hour of fun in the evenings.
From Time Magazine Archive
He followed her through the narrow, dampish alley at the side of the house.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
When I came to I was lying with my face in a dampish sort of hollow, and I suppose the afterdamp had lifted a bit, for I could raise my head.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Planted against a wall, in good dampish loam, it succeeds well.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
Scrambling through hedges, constant walking over stony ways, beds on dampish soil--these things told upon his garments; they soon began to drop away from him in shreds.
From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh
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