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Definition of "stickily" []

  • In a sticky manner. (adjective)

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Use "stickily" in a sentence
  • "Instead of soft clouds of sweetly sour fruit tucked beneath a comforting blanket of biscuity pastry, the tatin brazenly displays its wares, stickily caramelised and decadently buttery, on the outside – the humble base reduced to a mere vehicle for the apples in their sugary finery."
  • "We have an unemployment rate that is beginning to look stickily stuck above 9%."
  • "I find the accompanying sauce, made from a mixture of double cream, treacle and demerara sugar far too rich for the pudding – it's blandly creamy, rather than stickily toffeeish."
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