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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sulfurous
adjective
1: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: {acerb}, {acerbic}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {blistering}, {caustic}, {sulphurous}, {venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn: {sultry}, {stifling}, {sulphurous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "sulfurous": Acherontic, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, alabastrine, asbestine, bad, bad-smelling, chthonian, chthonic, devilish, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graphitic, graveolent, hellborn, hellish, high, ill-smelling, infernal, inorganic, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, micaceous, mildewed, mildewy, mineral, moldy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, pandemoniac, pandemonic, petrified, purgatorial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, silicic, smellful, smelling, smelly, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfuric, vile
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