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stickily

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stick·y  (stk)
adj. stick·i·er, stick·i·est
1. Having the property of adhering or sticking to a surface; adhesive.
2. Covered with an adhesive agent.
3. Warm and humid; muggy: a sticky day.
4. Informal Painful or difficult: a sticky situation.
5. Economics Tending to remain the same despite changes in the economy. Used of prices or wages.
sticki·ly adv.
sticki·ness n.
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Adv.1.stickily - in a sticky viscid manner; "he felt the blood move stickily from his split scalp and trickle down his forehead"
viscidly


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They heard a frame crack stickily, saw it heaved high and twirled round between enormous hands--a blotched, bulged, and perished horror of grey wax, corrupt brood, and small drone-cells, all covered with crawling Oddities, strange to the sun.
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