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Synonyms for sooty
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : soo t-ee, soo-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʊt i, ˈsu ti |
Définition of sooty
Origin :- mid-13c., from soot + -y (2). Related: Sootily; sootiness.
- adj dirty
- Tulp's sooty face took on a more dubious look, if that were possible.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- This is called the Sooty Lactarius and is very easily identified.
- Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
- And into what a heaven—a vault as of hell, sooty black, from which soot descended!
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.
- Extract from : « Youth » by Joseph Conrad
- From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla.
- Extract from : « Viking Tales » by Jennie Hall
- There was about Merlier a smell of death like the smell of sooty smoke.
- Extract from : « Mountain Blood » by Joseph Hergesheimer
- He would like to be with her at a sap-boiling, in the sooty shadows.
- Extract from : « Mountain Blood » by Joseph Hergesheimer
- I am encircled with squalor, with hunger, rage, and sooty desperation.
- Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
- It was an aged female that spoke; she sat on the ground all clad in a sooty garment.
- Extract from : « Fifty-Two Stories For Girls » by Various
- Was it possible that the other denizen of the sooty flue could be Captain de Banyan?
- Extract from : « The Young Lieutenant » by Oliver Optic
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