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sticky

adjective as in gummy, adhesive

adjective as in humid and hot

adjective as in difficult, embarrassing, awkward

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The signature challenge asked bakers to make a batch of monkey bread, a sticky pull-apart bread made from balls of dough layered and baked in a Bundt pan.

From Salon

“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.

I soon follow suit and, with sticky fingers, reach for all the candies that have caught my eye: super lemon sour suckers, pink lemonade gushers, muscat gummies and soda-flavored hard candies.

From Salon

That's according to the Utility Regulator, which has published data on so-called "sticky customers" for the first time.

From BBC

The full-back had to go off early in the second half, but the Red Roses coped without their star player, winning 47-7 after overcoming a sticky opening period.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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