Crossword clues for sweaty
sweaty
- Overly nervous, perhaps
- Obviously nervous, perhaps
- Needing a post-workout shower
- Like some nervous palms
- Like sauna users
- Like post-workout athletes
- Like many marathoners
- Like many a hot wing eater
- Like gym rats, often
- Like gym clothes
- Like a sauna user
- Like a post-workout gym rat
- In need of the showers
- In need of a shower
- Having just exercised
- Covered with perspiration
- Clearly working out
- Like gym clothes after a workout
- Having had a good workout
- Like some palms
- Hyperhidrotic
- Betraying nervousness, in a way
- Like palms on a first date, perhaps
- Like many exercisers
- Laborious
- In after-workout condition
- Sudoriparous
- Sudatory
- Roasted yet was damp
- Visibly nervous
- Covered with beads?
- Ready to hit the showers
- Dripping, in a way
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweaty \Sweat"y\, a. [Compar. Sweatier; superl. Sweatiest.]
Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
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Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams.
--Swift. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. ``The sweaty forge.''
--Prior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "causing sweat;" 1580s, "soaked with sweat," from sweat (n.) + -y (2). Related: Sweatiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 covered in sweat 2 having a tendency to sweat 3 likely to cause one to sweat
WordNet
adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" [syn: perspiring, sweating]
Usage examples of "sweaty".
She slipped the red bandanna off her head and rubbed her sweaty face with it.
Harry stood there waiting, the bezoar clutched in a slightly sweaty hand.
Sweaty oil added a high polish to their bodies that made their red skin look like ripe McIntosh apples, and the gnashing of teeth could be heard through the metal clunk and thump of heaving and hefting.
A fit of wet, violent coughing derailed his explanation, and he dabbed at his sweaty brow with a well-worn handkerchief.
She found Dobie standing at the sink, filling a glass with tap water, his battered hat pushed to the back of his head and hay chafe clinging to his sweaty skin.
He was all sweaty, his hair was rumpled, and someone had dumped the dregs of the wine pot over his head.
I ran easily and sweetly, my T-shirt sticking and unsticking to my sweaty back, my feet cased in Nike Victory 9s that, sprung with argon pockets and flexing sheaths of smart elastomers, could probably have run better by themselves.
Boyd Shreave and Eugenie Fonda in bed, or lighting their crotches for sweaty closeups.
After two months on the Nixon Impeachment Trail, my nerves were worn raw from the constant haggling and frustrated hostility of all those useless, early morning White House press briefings and long, sweaty afternoons pacing aimlessly around the corridors of the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill, waiting for crumbs of wisdom from any two or three of those 38 luckless congressmen on the House Judiciary Committee hearing evidence on the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon.
He let out a long inheld breath and dried his sweaty palms one by one on the legs of his trousers.
He pinched off part of the tiphe was up to nearly a quarter of an inch nowand was just lighting it when Burke walked in with a sweaty, annoyed-looking man in a dark suit.
He rubbed his sweaty hands together like a Trian merchant about to propose an exchange of goods.
She arrived back at the college late and sweaty, with just enough time for a chilly bath before the uneatable dinner.
Ross worked his way through the sweaty enthusiastic crowd, Yawer Shahid Mahmud and another soldier behind him.
It took him a little over an hour to make it crosstown to the Ynot one, but two trains died the death and had to be taken out of serviceand he was hot and sweaty when he got there.