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adj. - Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; exciting or gratifying.

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  • The summer was sultry and oppressive
  • He tells her that, in pitching the show to WNET, he called her "sultry"-"but I said 'smart' also"-and she lights up.
  • We enjoyed the cool breezes, and the fresh trout from the river, and pitied our friends in sultry Shemeroon.
  • The Greeks started the whole thing by calling sultry summer weather "Dog Days," blaming it on the brightest star in the sky besides the Sun, Sirius, also known as the
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