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Stickiest

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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stickiest

a. (en-superlativesticky)

Usage examples of "stickiest".

It was the stickiest, gooiest muck I have ever had the misfortune to put my tongue into.

Irvine, the stickiest of sticks, a ridiculous contrast with the honeymooning men about.

Kremlin itself, the stickiest part of the mission would be to reach the thing in the first place.

Borrowdale was the proudest of all the valleys and the stickiest to foreigners, but its natives already showed signs of adopting young Herries.

George has a positively uncanny knack for coming through the stickiest patch without a smudge.

As he eased the rusty car onto Sheridan Road, however, Nash imagined he might miss even the stickiest Evanston day after a three-month internship in San Bernardino, where the thick L.

At the rock, I smeared into the groove some birdlime made from the inner bark of a holly, which must be the stickiest substance there is.

He used the stickiest he could find, carefully placing a small amount into each muzzle.

He went over to the store and bought the sloppiest suit of reach-me-downs of glossiest black, and the stiffest and stickiest white shirt they had to show--also four bone studs, two for the collar and two for the cuffs.

And then promptly turned around and sent you out again on the stickiest assignments he had.