| 单词 | sultry |
| 释义 | sultry (once / 1876 pages) adj Stifling, humid and downright oppressive, sultry is an adjective that has everything to do with sweltering heat and a definite need for a tall glass of iced tea. You know how movies about the old south always show people wilting in the shade of their front porches, mopping their damp brows? Well that's because of the sultry summer weather. A sultry atmosphere is thick, almost swampy feeling. And all that heavy heat can certainly get passions stirring — "a sultry look" is one that happens to express steamy desire. WORD FAMILYsultry: sultrier, sultriest, sultrily, sultriness USAGE EXAMPLESHe recruited Alabama Shakes’ producer Blake Mills for the project, and even duets with the Shakes’ Brittany Howard for the sultry title track. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) The sultry rendition for President Kennedy's 45th birthday at a 1962 Democratic fundraiser at New York's Madison Square was one of her last public appearances. BBC(Nov 18, 2016) The skin-tight dress Marilyn Monroe wore for her sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" before then U.S. Reuters(Nov 18, 2016) 1adj sexually exciting or gratifying a sultry look a sultry dance Syn sensual hot extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm 2adj characterized by oppressive heat and humidity the summer was sultry and oppressive Syn stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous hot used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning |
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