Meaning & use
Sooty
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Covered with, stained by, or resembling soot; black or dark grey in color.
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The chimney sweep's hands were sooty by the end of the day.
A sooty haze hung over the city after the wildfire.
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Also used in the names of dark-colored animals, such as the 'sooty tern' and 'sooty shearwater.'
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