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
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
Yes, the tree, perhaps, does make the place a little dampish….
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
Good Gentlemen; You seem to have a snuffing in your head Sir, A parlous snuffing, but this same dampish air— 2 A dampish air indeed.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by Beaumont, Francis
