dampish
Example Sentences
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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
"I'm afraid your beds are dampish; perhaps you had better go to your brother's room; I've left the ceiling on, there."
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger
Well, there was three lives in danger that time, him, and me, and Miss Selincourt, and I dare say your sister got dampish at the feet.
From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Bessie Marchant
Yes, the tree, perhaps, does make the place a little dampish….
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
