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as in: a sultry afternoon Define
hot and humid
- Even at ten o’clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a…
- It was a sultry afternoon. I could barely breath.
- The forecast is for another round of overnight storms followed by another sultry day.
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as in: a sultry afternoon Define
hot and humid
as in: a sultry voice
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expressing or arousing sensual desire -- especially in reference to a woman's appearance or voice
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