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steamy

[stee-mee] / ˈsti mi /
ADJECTIVE
giving off vapors
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
misty
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
ADJECTIVE
erotic
Synonyms


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Graham was meeting and greeting voters on a steamy Sunday afternoon at a waterfront venue in suburban Charleston.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Jofra Archer did just that, galvanising the crowd after tea on a steamy afternoon in Nottingham.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

If you’re new to her work, here is where to start with Groff’s sprawling canon, which spans from steamy Florida swamps to medieval abbeys with a gift for the unexpected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

"GOAT" moved ahead of steamy literary adaptation "Wuthering Heights," which earned $14.2 million in its second week of release, according to Exhibitor Relations.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

We could see its dark, confident body, its steamy breath.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Their blues-based rock ’n’ roll is darker, steamier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

But in many rural communities, people stay outside late, cooking, socializing, or doing school work and avoiding hot houses made even steamier by metal roofs, Paaijmans and his colleagues have found.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2022

If you thought it felt a bit steamier the last time you went to Bed, Bath & Beyond, you wouldn’t be alone.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

After lunch — sandwiches eaten while sitting on logs above a lightly steaming hillside green with mosses — several of us try to ski up to the top of an even steamier hillside.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

Bougainville was even steamier than it had been on Guadalcanal.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

We did not quite go back to spring or forward to fall in Washington on Sunday, but it did seem that we said farewell — however briefly — to the steamiest side of summer.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2021

Wednesday, the last day of June, was 95 — our steamiest of the year so far.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed perhaps their steamiest rendition yet of Shallow, from their film A Star is Born.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2019

The mirror is “more than a match for even the steamiest bathroom,” the website promises, which honestly sounds like a challenge to me, as I pride myself on my steamy bathroom.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2018

Build a development in the steamiest, nastiest jungle, and test recruits for the colony there.

From The Merchants of Venus by A. H. Phelps




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