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perspiry
adjective as in perspiring
adjective as in sudoriferous
adjective as in sweating
Example Sentences
Then she drifted off into a perspiry sleep.
“No—I love that handkerchief and I’m not going to get it all perspiry,” Franny said.
Therefore Mr. Moss fell back upon the less exciting pastime of a perspiry afternoon among his potatoes and other vegetable luxuries.
He rose slowly from his chair and his face grew pale in his anger; then it became red and perspiry.
A number of dances had been gone through, evidently, for the younger ladies were seated round the hall, fanning themselves daintily, while the complexions of the more elderly of them had already begun to betray a perspiry floridness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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