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- adjective
superlative form ofsooty : mostsooty .
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Examples
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The sootiest coal camp sounds like paradise by contrast.
The Labor of Living 2010
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Jon shuffles meekly onto the stage, clearly uncomfortable, barel ... fauverism Ctrl-V (Shitting a brick) jacklail ATLANTA (AP) _ People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese. jbrotherlove my last Ctrl-V = are you a good kisser jeffarena and by kick butt, i mean getting stomped by 12yr olds online. kenlotich sootiest
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Sootiest, there's no H on there Inn Pittsburgh gets an additional nod, is it the sootiest city in the country.
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He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he?
Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe
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She was small, not more than fifteen hundred or two thousand tons, and the dingiest, sootiest of all tramp freighters.
Harrigan Max Brand 1918
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It 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.
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The negro, a black of the sootiest complexion, now advanced: --
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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Tydvil, _ Cyclops 'Hell, sootiest and horridest avatar of the
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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They will shoot their arrows for him with an unerring aim and send the poisoned dart, from the blow-pipe, true to its destination: and here he may often view all the different shades, from the red savage to the white man; and from the white man to the sootiest son of
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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Not surprisingly, the charcoal grilling and conveyor driven gas broilers for cooking burgers proved the sootiest.
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