sooty
sooh tee
- s of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
- s covered with or as if with soot
a sooty chimney
- It may sound utterly implausible, but just 20 minutes from the yammering streets and sooty sidewalks of Hong Kong's downtown heart is a ridgetop world of forested uplands and .
- Even in grade school, Ernie could always run faster and throw harder and kick farther than anybody else who booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown .
- April was a grim month in Wei Jianzhong's sooty, barracks-like neighborhood in Zhengzhou, the capital of central Henan province.