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• s  unpleasantly cool and humid
  a dank cellar
  dank rain forests

• In the dank winter of 2008, there was mayhem in the markets and long queues before community kitchens.
• The hotel room was uncomfortable, dank and dirty and Sam longed for his comfortable bed back home.
• The kind of dank, beer-stained shoe box frequented by up-and-comers.

• clammy

News & Articles

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• 7 Science Careers You Never Knew Existed
  Snake venom handler? Sex scholar? A career in science doesn't have to mean a job in a dank lab or cubicle. Here's a look at some of the more peculiar jobs you can do with a science degree.
  June 10, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• Scatologist? Snake milker? Sexologist? 7 odd science careers
  By Tanya LewisLiveScience Snake venom handler? Sex scholar? A career in science doesn't have to mean a job in a dank lab or cubicle. Here's a look at some of the more peculiar jobs you can do with a science degree.Fireworks designerEveryone loves a good fireworks show — the fluorescent bursts of light, the showers of sparks, the booms and crackles. But it's someone's job to create those ...
  June 10, 2013 - MSNBC
• Coal Miners Take It Outside for Contest
  Coal miners swapped the dark, dank underground for a bright blue sky and scenic views of rural Harrison County this week during the 32nd annual Tri-State Post No. 6 Ohio Valley Mine Rescue Contest.
  June 7, 2013 - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

Quotes

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• Ehud Barak in AFP
  Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that "we will not allow anyone, from any dank corner of Israeli society, to persecute anyone else," he was quoted as saying by Ynet News.
• Garth Turner in CTV.ca
  I'm expecting the Whip will be assigning me a renovated washroom somewhere in a forgotten corner of a vermin-infested dank basement in Ottawa,Turner wrote. "That should go well with my seat in the House of Commons that will be visible only...
• Mark Holland in CANOE
  The only thing that's behind this is a stubborn ideology that people who've gone to prison shouldn't get a chance to work on a farm,Holland said. "If all we do is build prisons and hold people in dark, dank cells with no rehabilitation, we...