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airless Adjective lacking fresh air; stuffy
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airless adjective stuffy, close, heavy, stifling, oppressive, stale, breathless, suffocating, sultry, muggy, unventilated << OPPOSITE airy |
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In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people. She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life-in-death. The small rain fell too softly to be heard in the garden; not a leaf stirred in the airless calm; the watch-dog was asleep, the cats were indoors; far or near, under the murky heaven, not a sound was stirring. |
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