sweatily
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4.0
- adverb
- /ˈswɛtɪli/
- After running a marathon, she sat down, breathing heavily and feeling sweatily satisfied with her achievement.
Examples
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With their two sons grown and out of the house, the mechanic's smell made her think of her two boys when they'd been younger, teenagers dismantling cars in the garage, surly and sweatily handsome grease monkeys.
Fiction book (1994) -
Della had to shove it open and wedge herself in, finding that Trish had rolled up the living room carpet into the entry hall and was sweatily dancing with a strange man.
Fiction book (1995) -
Barris waits sweatily in line with a small carry-on suitcase.
Fiction book (2002) -
The athletes stood on the sidelines, looking sweatily at each other as they prepared for the final sprint.
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He glanced sweatily at his watch, anxious to see if he would make it to the interview on time.
How Sweaty
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4.8
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sweatily comes from sweat, meaning 'liquid from your skin when you are hot or nervous', plus the endings -y meaning 'full of' and -ly meaning 'in a ... way'. So, sweatily means doing something while you are wet with sweat or feeling hot or nervous.