Definition of sooty
sootier
;sootiest
1a : of, relating to, or producing sootb : soiled with soot
2 : of the color of soot
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The valley’s air also still violates federal standards for sooty pollution that comes from industry, businesses and vehicles.
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Another photo from a nearby apartment shows a sooty door with a large hole above the doorknob.
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The train, which carried passengers and freight, got its nickname from the sooty exhaust the steam engine belched forth, forming a black film on passengers' clothing.
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Then there's the Graving Dock Tavern that served its last pint over a decade ago, but still soberly stands up aside the sooty verges.
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Its glass towers give way to lush green hillsides, a welcome escape from Beijing and Shanghai’s sooty gray air.
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An Inconvenient Truth: Of all the baffling elements within this episode of Twin Peaks, the most confusing may be the lengthy sequence involving an old-timey convenience store/gas station and a group of sooty ghosts.
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An Inconvenient Truth: Of all the baffling elements of this episode of Twin Peaks, the most confusing may be the lengthy sequence involving an old-timey convenience store/gas station and a group of sooty ghosts.
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These were shiny and modern, in contrast to the sooty wood-burning stove in back, which might have been from another century.
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First Known Use of sooty
13th century
SOOTY Defined for Kids
sooty
playDefinition of sooty for Students
sootier
;sootiest
1 : covered with soot sooty hands
2 : like soot in color a sooty bird
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