sultry

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1. sultry - Adjective

3. sultry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.

Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.

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What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.” "Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches. Cassandra Clare

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music. Laura Bell Bundy

A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether. Zelda Fitzgerald

Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield; and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night. John Milton

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. Yukio Mishima

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