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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sooty manner; with soot.

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  • adverb In a sooty manner.

Etymologies

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sooty +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In the second half, as the Rake's decline accelerates, the colours seep away to match the monochrome of the sootily-clad Nick Shadow, played with devilish sang-froid by Matthew Rose.

    The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010

  • Still, the film's best, most evocative footage has nothing to do with special effects but consists of high angle establishing shots of Bangkok, looking at once sleekly modern and sootily old world.

    Who's that Naking? Arbogast 2009

  • She had, in the manner of women of the region, applied copious mascara, which now ran sootily down her tawny cheeks.

    Florence of Arabia 2004

  • She had, in the manner of women of the region, applied copious mascara, which now ran sootily down her tawny cheeks.

    Florence of Arabia 2004

  • They swerved through Tonbridge Junction, glistening sootily under a drizzle of rain, and dived into the yawning tunnel of River Hill as though into refuge from the bleakness of the open country.

    Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg

  • Ken liked to walk there, even on such a dreary March day as this, when the horses splashed through puddles, and the funnels of the steamers dripped sootily black.

    The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

  • Forest Park Boulevard comes in sootily, smokestacks, gas-tanks, and large areas of scarred vacant lots boding ill enough for its destiny.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • But I judge that I was regarded as too destructive, which amuses me, and to which I shall apply the antidote of showing how destructive modern thought is and must be -- whether running with sootily smoking torch of individuality in Bakunin, or hissing in Nietzsche, or laughing at

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Slim was laboring sootily with the stove-pipe which Patsy had struck askew with a stick of wood.

    The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

  • Jerry heard the whining flight of the bullet that had missed his head by inches, and as though in obedience to a single nerve impulse, both the girl and the man fell flat to the better concealment of the ground, and edged back into the sootily shadowed laurel.

    A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

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