Sooty
['sʊtɪ] or ['sʊti]
Definition
(adj.) covered with or as if with soot; 'a sooty chimney' .
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Definition
(superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
(superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
(v. t.) To black or foul with soot.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dark, dusky, murky, fuliginous.
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Examples
- They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They are very sinewy and strong, are Rouncewell's hands--a little sooty too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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