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
Indeed Jim did have a dampish look—his eyelashes and eyebrows were beaded with the moisture.
From Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt
The air was not foul, but it was close, and there was a dampish smell upon it, and it was charged with a fishy odour like that of decaying spawn and dead marine vegetation.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
These ant-hills, I am persuaded, supply a foundation to certain tufts of low trees which spring up in dampish places where the spring fires have less sweep.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
