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
I was to have spent a few days there, but Wynberg is cold at night and dampish, so I declined that.
From Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
"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
Some negatives require a special treatment, and both printing and development must be altered, while for a very dense negative the paper may be left out in a dampish room for some time.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
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