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In some senses, sooty is marked as literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
all, ashen, easier, enabling, impervious, painted, under
VERB + SOOTY
exhaled, face, fire
SOOTY + NOUN
acheron, atmosphere, coal
ADV.
only
adj
Of, relating to, or producing soot.
Fire of sooty coal.
The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
Soiled with soot
Of the color of soot.
The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
Dark-skinned; black.
While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]
And, though I've laughed at your expense, / O sister of the sooty hue, / No man who has a heart and sense / Would do one deed to injure you.
verb
To blacken or make dirty with soot.
Sootied with noisome smoke.
Fire of sooty coal.
WiktionaryThe white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
WiktionaryThe grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
WiktionarySootied with noisome smoke.
WiktionaryHer face was sooty.
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In some senses, sooty is marked as literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.