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  • adjective superlative form of misty: most misty.

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Examples

  • In the land of Nebbia, the mistiest part of Etruria, it was the month of Agnosto, when anything can happen, and Melliflua was pondering what to do about the fauns.

    Melliflua and the Fauns 2009

  • In the land of Nebbia, the mistiest part of Etruria, it was the month of Agnosto, when anything can happen, and Melliflua was pondering what to do about the fauns.

    Melliflua and the Fauns 2009

  • Before he wrote, I was the mistiest of figures, scarcely more than a name in a genealogy.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • Christina lay and let pictures pass before her — pictures, fragments, flashes — of the life which, until now, had been hers; and, compared with this intensely personal past, which had its rise in mistiest morning memories, even her children seemed unfamiliar to her — the chance associates of an hour.

    Mary Christina 2004

  • “I imagine great strength is needed for hunting bears,” observed Alexey Alexandrovitch, who had the mistiest notions about the chase.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • "I think we will leave the lesson here for today," said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • In the middle of the mistiest night, the sparkle of laser and plasma torches lit the gloom like dazzling fireflies.

    The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

  • It surveyed the great civilizations in wonder and puzzlement - and then it plunged back still further, far back, into much the longest mistiest epoch of man's history, before history began, before he had so much as a fire to warm him at night, or a brain to guide his hand at hunting.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

  • It was as picturesque as Battersea in Whistler's mistiest days.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • ‘I imagine great strength is needed for hunting bears, ’ observed Alexey Alexandrovitch, who had the mistiest notions about the chase.

    Chapter IX. Part IV 1917

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