smothery

"It's your set, smothery pessimism that hurts so, Selma," Paula declared intensely.

And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.

The dry feeling now left him for one that was hot and smothery, seemingly caused by having on too much clothing.

In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.