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sooty
adjective as in dirty
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The black of her dress was a sooty black, but you would only have called her hair black because there was nothing else to call it.
It was an aged female that spoke; she sat on the ground all clad in a sooty garment.
Others, very dusty, came from beneath carpets, and lastly a sooty bundle was dragged down the chimney.
The “sooty-fox” is a variety of the “Arctic,” distinguished from it only by its colour, which is of a uniform blackish brown.
There are lots of mice in this kitchen—sooty mice, not clean like ours—and I thought I'd try to catch them.
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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sooty, such as: black, blackened, dark, dingy, fuliginous, and grimy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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