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- adverb In a
soggy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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From one perspective, it seems odd: there's already email of sorts within Facebook, and instant messaging, so why would it want to let its brand start to spread soggily around the web by going free of the site?
Facebook's rumoured email offering raises hopes of a spam-free future.. too high? Charles Arthur 2010
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Charlie did so, and the black object tumbled to the floor where it bounced soggily.
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In the countryside now, the soggily ripening crops and the rampant green of hedges and woods seem to have far less to do with each other than they did in the past.
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The first was draw together everything people didn't like about the Bush administration, everything it didn't like about two wars and high spending and illegal immigration, and brought those strands into a heavy knot that just sat there, soggily, and came to symbolize Bushism.
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In the two weeks since Fay made landfall and snaked soggily up the peninsula, the lake has rocketed from record lows to a record rise.
In Other News... 2008
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Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood.
Living Alone and Loving It Barbara Feldon 2003
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When he left at five-thirty it was pouring rain, but he struck off in the opposite direction from his boarding-house, feeling, in the first cool moisture that oozed soggily through his old suit, an odd exultation and freshness.
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Lynley took up his cup in which a Typhoo tea bag drooped soggily against the side.
A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001
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The tiring evening ended at last in clearing skies, and devoted enduring fireworks fanatics let off rainbow-coloured pop-pop sparkling starbursts in soggily dripping back gardens.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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