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starchy: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"; consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods"

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unrelaxed collapse: nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips

starched collapse

Victorian collapse: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria; typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria; of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"

mucilaginous collapse

gelatinous collapse: thick like gelatin

ceremonious collapse: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

thickened collapse: made or having become thick; "thickened bronchial arteries"; made thick in consistency; "flour-thickened gravy"; "dust-thickened saliva"

jellied collapse

curdled collapse

clotted collapse

glutinous collapse

slithery collapse: having a slippery surface or quality ; "slithery mud"; "slithery eels"

gummy collapse

taut collapse: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"; subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"

staid collapse

clammy collapse: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"

doughy collapse: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess"

gooey collapse: soft and sticky

syrupy collapse: having a relatively high resistance to flow

renitent collapse

courtly collapse: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

stringy collapse: consisting of or containing string or strings; lean and sinewy

gluey collapse: having the sticky properties of an adhesive

slabby collapse

viscous collapse

ropy collapse: forming viscous or glutinous threads; of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

ceremonial collapse: marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb"

viscid collapse

adhesive collapse: tending to adhere

slimy collapse

sticky collapse: covered with an adhesive material; moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

stodgy collapse: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"; heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

pasty collapse: (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers; small meat pie or turnover; resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"

gumbo collapse: a soup or stew thickened with okra pods; long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews; any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

gracious collapse: disposed to bestow favors; "thanks to the gracious gods"; characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor"

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