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[ adjective ] lacking fresh air
Examples "a dusty airless attic" "the dreadfully close atmosphere" "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" Used in print (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel_Dumont and blew it off again , and did the same in a tiny , almost airless room in a tenement in the West_Forties . Related terms |
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