(superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
(3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
(4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
(5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
(6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
(7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
(8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
(9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
(10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
(11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
(12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
(13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
(14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
(15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
(16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.
Sultry
Definition:
(superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
(superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.
Example Sentences:
(1) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
(2) The values of the body temperature and breathing frequency were taken from young pigs and sows at a tropical location in order to study the relations between measured climatic values and their complex derivations (the amount of cooling down, enthalpy, sultriness factor, and water vapour pressure).
(3) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
(4) More than a century later, a similar spectacle is being prepared, but this time the sultry capital of Amazonas will not be staging La Gioconda; it will be hosting the World Cup .
(5) There's already a blog called Grindr Remembers , featuring sultry hook-up shots in front of Holocaust memorials … because nothing says "I'm great in bed" like evoking the memory of mass murder and state-sponsored persecution.
(6) The Dutchman had elected to field a 5-2-3 that encouraged Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia, its wingbacks, to push forward to support a central duo of Fletcher and Ander Herrera, who proved United’s most impressive performer on a sultry night at this picturesque ground in the hills of Pasadena.
(7) 'I t was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they killed people on the streets, and I didn't know what I was doing in Istanbul …" There was something about Turkey's Taksim Square protests that often made me think of the opening line in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar .
(8) Sarah Churchwell is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta) Lavinia Greenlaw Photograph: Karen robinson If I opened a novel now and it began with the line: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs …" I'd close it again fast.
(9) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
(10) The prose still seems remarkably fresh: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
(11) The finest exponent of this sultry vocal style over sinister production is, of course, Aaliyah , the late R&B star so name-dropped at the moment.
(12) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
(13) Most of the criticism of the duet was reserved for Cyrusʼ not so sultry moves, however, even though nothing that she did – from the twerking to the crotch grabs to the simulated masturbation – is new to the genre.
(14) Her grown-up brand of pop music – understated, fatalistic, with that sultry voice and her astonishing almond-shaped eye – gave her a sophisticated appeal.
(15) (I went back with friends a few days later, when the sun was out, and Rio was at its sultry best.
(16) At the back of the palace is a veranda where, in a screenwipe of imagination, one can picture dapper-suited diplomats sitting on sultry evenings, making smalltalk over a gin and tonic and watching the setting sun amid a chorus of crickets.
(17) A vigilante group of Surrey housewives, ostensibly the last people on any Che Guevaran recruitment list, forced their local club to turn off its sprinklers by sit-ins, harassing greenkeepers and night-time vigils, which were easy to organise on those sultry evenings.
(18) A marriage of south-western generosity and almost eastern sensibilities, with dishes such as hamachi crudo (raw fish) sharpened with onions and capers and bathed in sultry brown butter.
(19) Scottish newspaper the Daily Record also today uncovered a sultry version of Cry Me a River Boyle sang for a 1999 charity CD , part-funded by her local Whitburn Community Council, which has led to massive traffic on its site.
(20) Rewind a year before the Britney takeover, Beyoncé Knowles was 16 when Destiny's Child's sultry single No, No, No went platinum, and I'm pretty sure there were suggestive dance moves and belly buttons all over that thing.