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Definition of Sootiest
1. sooty [adj] - See also: sooty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sootiest
Literary usage of Sootiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse by Bowyer Nichols (1895)
"TT is by the finest tints and most insensible gradations that Nature descends
from the fairest face about St. James's to the sootiest complexion in Africa. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"Whence comes this graphite film 1 Why is it developed as we approach the center
of London, reaching its maximum in the most densely populated and sootiest ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"When lenity and cruelty play for kingdom*, The gentle gamester is the sootiest
winner. A man may think, if he will, that two eyes see no more than one; ..."
4. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... petty shopkeepers, Scotch hawkers, &c. &c. The town might be, and will be,
one of the prettiest places in the world. It is one of the sootiest, ..."
5. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... petty shopkeepers, Scotch hawkers, &c. &c. The town might be, and will be,
one of the prettiest places in the world. It is one of the sootiest, ..."
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