Crossword clues for sootier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sooty \Soot"y\, a. [Compar. Sootier; superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s?tig. See Soot.]
Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. ``Fire of sooty coal.''
--Milton.-
Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. ``The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.''
--Milton.Sooty albatross (Zo["o]l.), an albatross ( Ph[oe]betria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie.
Sooty tern (Zo["o]l.), a tern ( Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.
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Usage examples of "sootier".
It was not pale-gray but darker than before, sootier, oilier, and with a new foul stench.
They just vanished, and when they did so the landscape seemed darker, the grays looking sootier and the browns appearing wetter and redder, too.
He has retirement plans as well, he and Michelle have talked them over a lot, the Winnebago that will take them out west where they may finally settle, but he will be retiring sootier than that, and alone.
The air was sootier than ever: smoke now belched from factories and trains and automobiles.