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tending to adhere to objects upon contact
- it took forever to clean up the clingy Styrofoam pellets that had been used as packing material for the lamp
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“Clingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clingy. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.
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The first known use of clingy was in 1702
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