sultry

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It was hot and sultry, which is rare in an English June.

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  1. adjective Very humid and hot: sultry July weather.
  2. adjective Extremely hot; torrid: the sultry sands of the desert.
  3. adjective Expressing or arousing desire: a sultry look; a sultry dance.

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  • The arrangements are restrained and sultry, although the singer pushes the stylistic envelope on a couple of selections. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • Though her onstage persona is cool and sultry, the Canadian-born Krall, who lives in Vancouver with Costello and their two sons, Dexter and Frank, is warm, giggly and gregarious as she stretches out in a swanky hotel in New York City's lower east side.
  • He said he was not like his sultry, flamboyant characters: "You don't always have Tennessee Williams around to write glorious lines for you." —  Andrea Harner
  • Zac Posen is a New York City native known for his sultry, —  The Daily Evergreen News Feed
  • Ah, old man,--sultry day, this Whose house stood here, friend?" —  Israel Potter
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From obsolete sulter, to swelter, possibly alteration of swelter.

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  1. Contr. of sweltry, q. v.
 

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