Definitions

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  • adjective muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation

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  • adjective (British informal) poorly ventilated

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Examples

  • Reading about the fuggy alcoholic blurs always so lucidly expressed of experiences with the literary and intellectual luminaries of his day, one might wonder whether Hitchens is the dreamer or the dreamed, the purveyor of an intellectual fantasy or the product of other peoples' ideas.

    Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

  • Reading about the fuggy alcoholic blurs always so lucidly expressed of experiences with the literary and intellectual luminaries of his day, one might wonder whether Hitchens is the dreamer or the dreamed, the purveyor of an intellectual fantasy or the product of other peoples' ideas.

    Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

  • At any rate, her book suggests, she lived quite contentedly alongside the fuggy, all-male locker room that was sofa government in the Blair "den".

    Imposing quotas is not as crucial as changing cultures | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Andre Adams is in the thick of a rather fine spell here, wobbling the ball around underneath some thick, fuggy clouds.

    County cricket - as it happened 2010

  • I quote Copper's Blog when he said that he'd entered a council house, "The house had that fuggy, overheated feel to it that only someone who's not paying the gas bill could afford."

    Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008

  • Newmania said ... quote Copper's Blog when he said that he'd entered a council house, "The house had that fuggy, overheated feel to it that only someone who's not paying the gas bill could afford."

    Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008

  • Though I'd want to live on the beautiful planet Aurora under the Naked Sun and NOT in the stinking fuggy Caves of Steel.

    Revisiting The Robot Novels Kev 2010

  • Rooms were hazed with the fumes from the keproot pipes of the addicted and fuggy with the smell of the resins smouldering in the censers.

    Rogue Rainlord Glenda Larke 2008

  • Rooms were hazed with the fumes from the keproot pipes of the addicted and fuggy with the smell of the resins smouldering in the censers.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Glenda Larke 2008

  • Thouron stood and murmured a respectful greeting, then removed the other papers from the single vacant chair in the cramped and fuggy room, feeling Laboughe's simmering eyes on him.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

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