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Stickier

Sticky \Stick"y\, a. [Compar. Stickier; superl. Stickiest.] Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk.
--Bacon.

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stickier

a. (en-comparative of: sticky)

Usage examples of "stickier".

Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be--none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original, brush-defying, soap-and-water-proof, north star, burr mud, blacker than lampblack, stickier than glue!

It was, if anything, hotter and stickier than it had been earlier in the day.

He has to keep stirring until the mash slowly boils down, becomes stickier and more sluggish.

She had gotten her hero into a sticky situation, but could it be any stickier than the one she found herself in?

Whispering to the well-stone rod, he caused its surface, on one end, to form a layer of Bondril, a substance far stickier than natural atoms could ever produce.

The air grew stickier and hotter as the green arms of Shikaroa closed around the bay.

There will always be better and stickier tires, for the street or track.

With his cuts bandaged tightly with handkerchiefs and two pairs of socks inside his running shoes he managed the morning dash around the garden, but realised as each step became stickier and more painful that there was no real hope of the gashes healing while he continued to fulfill the personal fitness goals in his Training Plan.

The undersides held a stickier yellow glow, and here and there a gleaming edge was picked out in nacreous brown, and the occasional filigree lacework that blossomed around a ruptured skin.