sultry

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Adjective describing literal or figurative intense heat

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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 1:25 · 30 Jul
…Unlike muggy and swelter, sultry, as we said, applies to both literal and figurative heat, as when a singer's sultry voice brings a figuratively hot vibe.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 1:15 · 30 Jul
…Sweltering on a sultry day may also bring the word muggy to…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 1:00 · 30 Jul
…Sultry is a late sixteenth century alteration of the obsolete word sulter, itself an alteration of swelter, which since the fourteenth century has meant to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat, and to become exceedingly hot.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 0:53 · 30 Jul
…Sultry days and glances both burn hot, one literally, the……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 0:39 · 30 Jul
…It's a sultry morning in the Maldives, and the mechanic……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 0:17 · 30 Jul
…Sultry is an adjective.…
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · sultry · 0:12 · 30 Jul
…Today's word is sultry, spelled S-U-L-T-R-Y.…
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