[
UK
/ɹˈuːmi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to arthritis
rheumy with age and grief
my creaky old joints -
moist, damp, wet (especially of air)
the raw and theumy damp of night air
How To Use rheumy In A Sentence
- He has also confessed to murdering seven women and has emerged as one of the country's most hated criminals, his puffy features and rheumy eyes illustrating many magazine articles.
- Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
- `Dutchie shouldn't," he wheezed, with rheumy old eyes streaming. THE TARTAN RINGERS
- ‘Come and be touched by Oprah Winfrey’, he rattled, his rheumy eyes streaming, staring deep into my soul.
- Behind those rheumy eyes, the game knee, the bad hip, or whatever—Frankie, the fastest kid in eighth grade. Shortcut Man
- His rheumy eyes were wandering sightlessly, but his ears were locked on me and twitching.
- Costley, however, does not come over as any rheumy romantic.
- Instead, you find yourself outraged by the fact that in the course of an average working day these already unattractive garments soak up tens of billions of endemic, playfully airborne, hospital-dependent microbes issuing from the rheumy pipes and tubes of the chronically ill. Archive 2009-05-01
- Father Stone is standing closer, his eyes staring at me with the rheumy quality of the very old.
- Milton has a wide-fitting loafer in the door of the future and a rheumy eye on Sylvia's support hose. World of Lather: a month in soap
