sultry
adjective
oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering.
sultriness
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a word derived from
sultry.
Example Sentences
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"I'd say it's a desert aesthetic with a soul vocal. Like a Tarantino soundtrack or a Nancy Sinatra album – the twang of the guitars, the sultriness of the production."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Wrapped in moisture-laden air, we seemed to experience moments of surpassing sultriness, sensations that may have seemed surprising for all our experience of Washington in the summer.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
The jazzy seven-member band, led by Gerald Sternbach at the piano, provides sultriness or drive, as suits the occasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
He also captures the sultriness of Wind Gap in unconventional ways, evoking the conflicting sensations of grace and dread in every color-saturated daytime scene and cutting it into its evenings.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2018
He felt strangely thus alone with her in this sweet-perfumed, melancholy, intoxicating sultriness, alone with this happiness that was so near him, and which he was afraid of frightening away by an unseemly imprudence.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
