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  • adverb In a squishy manner.

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Examples

  • The only challenge was using a wet-suit for the first time: aside from a cold trickle of water down my back, it was squishily warm.

    Karin Badt: Surf and Yoga: A New Way to Experience Morocco Karin Badt 2011

  • The only challenge was using a wet-suit for the first time: aside from a cold trickle of water down my back, it was squishily warm.

    Karin Badt: Surf and Yoga: A New Way to Experience Morocco Karin Badt 2011

  • And Ratatouille is perfectly enjoyable as a non-libertarian, non-liberal, squishily quasi-populist piece of Americana.

    Some Interpretations Are More Equal Than Others 2007

  • On the other hand, shoes left behind smell just like the person who had been in them, and they have the additional interest of carrying on their soles whatever you squishily stepped in outside.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • On the other hand, shoes left behind smell just like the person who had been in them, and they have the additional interest of carrying on their soles whatever you squishily stepped in outside.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • When I don't go with offensively blunt, I tend to go perhaps squishily understated.

    John Kerry does a terrible job of representing Barack Obama on "Meet the Press." Ann Althouse 2008

  • And with good reason: the supporting statistics are squishily malleable at best.

    Our Bilbao 2007

  • Her tail batted one particularly vile-looking zombie into the brick wall of the nearest building, and the zombie hit so hard and so squishily that it just stuck to the wall like a refrigerator magnet, arms and legs spread in a sprawl.

    Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

  • Chunks of tentacle flew out and landed squishily on the ground around him.

    Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

  • The zombie lifted a partially fleshed hand and knocked a bit squishily on a wood door.

    Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

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