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muggy

[muhg-ee] / ˈmʌg i /


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But the apartment was muggy, the surfaces covered in dust.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Tuesday morning, in the muggy New Jersey heat, 13 players graduated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Still, the muggy morning session has the Bula FC squad sweating heavily at the club's base in Ba, a town on Fiji's main island in a northern coastal area known for its sugarcane farms.

From Barron's Feb. 5, 2026

“It will be muggy out there,” the weather service warned.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2025

It didn’t matter if it was a mosquito-infested shul broiling in Chicago’s muggy summer heat; if I closed my eyes, I was back in Piatra Neamț again.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

A higher dew point means the air is moister and thus will feel muggier.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2025

She said the "roasting" and "muggier" weather has made home visits a bit harder.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2022

The offseason’s great intrigue – where will LeBron go next? – began well before these finals ended, and will only get muggier and more tiring as the summer drags on.

From The Guardian Jun. 9, 2018

The farther I crawled, the darker and muggier it got and the heavier the flow of fumes, heat and noise.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2016

The air felt muggier than their normal southern Aprils.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Expats and tourists from some of the hottest, muggiest U.S. states are bewildered: How has a lifetime of sweltering heat not prepared them for this?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Pentagram, the Obsessed, Iron Man and other doom bands each specialized in sluggish, smothering riffs that, in their respective heydays, felt as endless and extreme as Washington at its muggiest.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2022

Yes, they’re dorky-looking, but it gives you the ability to keep your fan open and running even when it’s raining, which is often when it’s muggiest.

From The Verge Sep. 15, 2017

For the holiday week, the Metrograph will screen films set in some of New York’s muggiest weather.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2016

She likes the spicy soup, but she can’t understand why I only seem to make it on the hottest, muggiest nights.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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