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Answer for the clue "Contrived gland idea not good, containing nothing regarding certain glands ", 9 letters:
adenoidal

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She's probably upset because her boyfriend doesn't want to go out with her on account of her amusing adenoidal accent. ▪ The adenoidal whine of their accents dulled her hearing, and the smoke of their cigarettes made her ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Pertaining to the adenoids 2 (context of a voice English) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to the adenoids sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" [syn: pinched , nasal ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adenoid \Ad"e*noid\, Adenoidal \Ad`e*noid"al\a. Glandlike; glandular.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from adenoid (gland) (see adenoid ) + -al (1).

Usage examples of adenoidal.

Through the space between slack lips, Vicki could hear heavy adenoidal breathing.

He passed a group of technicians, not quickly enough to avoid hearing the reason for the scene: the hyperbolic paraboloid dome of the new church had a refractory habit of throwing down tinny echoes, as if a whiny, adenoidal God were parodically repeating everything said.

Southsickness in its tertiary stage, whispered that adenoidal Saxon youth who was Mondaugen's doubleganger: beware, beware.

The adenoidal voice and upper-class British accent belonged to Cyril Langhorne, an ace cryptographer and cipher clerk.

It was a nice afternoon, too nice to spoil with the car radio's hit parade lineup of adenoidal retards.

Wemyss's adenoidal snoring reached me, reduced to a soothing buzz by the thickness of the intervening doors.