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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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