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sweaty

adjective as in damp with perspiration

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After some time spent doing vigorous outdoor activities, you may feel both cold and sweaty, so breathable, moisture-wicking fabrics will be an important feature to keep you warm and dry.

You’re catching your breath, a little sweaty or a lot sweaty, finished with that workout for the day.

Earbuds that make contact can put pressure on sensitive areas, get sweaty, or just fly out if you move too fast.

The 22-year-old’s hair is a brown swath of a sweaty mess, and his gold No.

There’s also the fact that, just before and during a period, many women experience an increase in body temperature, making them hotter and sweatier than usual.

What astonishment that such beauty urges me into bed for a nightlong sweaty roll in tangled sheets.

Once I even got a Durian—Asian fruit notorious for smelling like a sweaty sock—which did not make me popular that month.

I come home sweaty, exhausted, and full of irritation about the three sleeves of Titleists lost in the rough.

Nine times out of ten, it will conjure up an image of a brooding, sweaty, long-haired hunk.

Meanwhile, I sit in my wrinkled, ill-fitting blazer, sweaty from nerves and running to get to this interview on time.

"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.

We went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped.

I'll not have you two sitting down to eat all sweaty and out of breath, like last time Wes was over here.

Gorb paused at his work and drew a hairy forearm across his sweaty face.

With his left hand he caught the right sleeve, wiped his sweaty face, and tried to straighten his hair with his fingers.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sweaty, such as: moist, sticky, stinky, wet, bathed, and clammy.

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

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