Crossword clues for clingy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clingy \Cling"y\, a. Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, of things, from cling + -y (2). Of persons (especially children) from 1969, though the image of a "clingy vine" in a relationship goes back to 1896. Related: Clinginess.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a tendency to cling. 2 (context informal usually derogatory English) Pathetically possessive of someone, usually a significant other.
Usage examples of "clingy".
The worst part of falling victim to one of the snares was hearing the laughter as he tried to extract himself from whatever had hold of him, be it a thorny bush or some of those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.
She was dressed up, wearing a pencil-thin skirt and a clingy sweater under a wool blazer.
The clingy cotton shirt emphasized his broad back and bulging biceps, and the jeans hugged his slender hips and long legs.
Sometime in the night she had kicked her legs free of the covers, and the satin nightgown she wore had ridden up, showing him the shapely length of her legs even as the clingy material outlined every curl and swell of her breasts.
Her bountiful figure was accentuated by a tightly laced bodice and a billowing skirt just clingy enough to hint at the slender legs beneath.
Muffled screams came from behind the scarf as he slipped the blade under the clingy material covering her breasts and slashed downward.
Packed into black pants and a rose-colored, clingy top, she was impossible for any male over the age of ten to ignore.
It was a cold and uncomfortable process in wet, clingy clothes, but it was worth it.
Roup was technically his superior, but there was a clingy desperation to his manner that made Chainer's knife hand itch.
She was so stupid and so irritating, she couldn't imagine how her brother could bear her, except that she seemed very coy and clingy when they left, and she was still giggling when they got I I into his car to go out for a nightcap.
He handed me a pair of dark blue cargo pants that were made out of this soft clingy material.
Another night Bill might wear an Elvis towel for his cape or for an occasion like the Bar Tab show at Birraporetti's he might put on his fancy store-bought Elvis costume, a clingy white jumpsuit with a sparkling cummerbund.
In her middling years, and with brassieres back in style, she'd considered abandoning thin clingy tops worn sans foundation garment but decided there were few enough perks for the small-breasted.