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Synonyms for sultry

Grammar : Adj
Spell : suhl-tree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌl tri

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Définition of sultry

Origin :
  • 1590s, "oppressively hot, close and moist" (of weather), from obsolete verb sulter "to swelter" (1580s), alteration of swelter. Figurative sense of "hot with lust" is attested from 1704; of women, "lascivious, sensual, arousing desire" it is recorded from 1940.
  • adj hot and humid
  • adj sensuous
Example sentences :
  • It was sultry, and there was something in the atmosphere that at once threatened and soothed.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • He went to the window and gasped in the mists of the sultry air for breath.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The day had been humid, warm and sultry, and the doors and windows were open.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • The day was sultry, and June in all its power ruled the countryside.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • It was a sultry forenoon, and the windows and doors of the building were open.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • The room grew calmer and the work was carried on in the sultry heat.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • In hot, sultry weather the boar may be run down by the hounds and captured.
  • Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon
  • The rain came to Hidden Water in great drops, warmed by the sultry air.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
  • The night was sultry; her pulses bounding; her brow hot with fever.
  • Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin

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