Crossword-Solution: SOOTY 5 letters, 116 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Sooty superl. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by
soot.
Sooty superl. Having a dark brown or black color like soot;
fuliginous; dusky; dark.
Sooty v. t. To black or foul with soot.

We have 116 clues for the answer “SOOTY”

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"The ___ flag of Acheron"—Milton. 1 answer
BROWNISH black 1 answer
Besmirched(5) 1 answer
Black, as a chimney 1 answer
Black, as a chimney flue 1 answer
Black, as a flue 1 answer
Blackened by fire 1 answer
Blackened, as a chimney 1 answer
Blackened, as a chimney flue 1 answer
Chimney sweep's condition 1 answer
Coated with carbon 1 answer
Covered with grime. 1 answer
Describing urban air. 1 answer
Dirty like Santa's suit 1 answer
Dirty, as a chimney 1 answer
Dirty, like a chimney 1 answer
Flue-stricken? 1 answer
Fresh from the chimney, perhaps 1 answer
Grimed. 1 answer
In need of a sweep 1 answer
In need of a sweep, perhaps 1 answer
In need of sweeping 1 answer
Covered with black fireplace residue 1 answer
Like Bert, for much of "Mary Poppins" 1 answer
Like Dick Van Dyke when singing "Chim Chim Cher-ee" 1 answer
Like Santa after Christmas, presumably 1 answer
Like Santa after a delivery 1 answer
Like Santa after a delivery, maybe 1 answer
Like Santa after entering a house, perhaps 1 answer
Like Santa after his rounds, maybe 1 answer
Like Santa after his rounds, perhaps 1 answer
Like Santa after struggling through a chimney 1 answer
Like Santa after work 1 answer
Like Santa on Christmas Eve, probably 1 answer
Like Santa on Christmas Eve? 1 answer
Like Santa on Christmas morning? 1 answer
Like Santa's boots 1 answer
Like Santa's duds 1 answer
Like Santa's laundry 1 answer
Like Santa's outfit on December 26 1 answer
Like Santa's suit after going through the chimney 1 answer
Like Santa's suit on Christmas Day 1 answer
Like Santa's suit on Christmas morning 1 answer
Like Santa's suit on Dec. 26 1 answer
Like Santa's suit on December 26 1 answer
Like Santa's suit on December 26th 1 answer
Like a Chimney channel 1 answer
Like a blackened chimney 1 answer
Like a chimney flue 1 answer
Like a chimney needing sweeping 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SOOTY (5)

According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Thea was flushed and animated, and she seemed as restless as the sooty sparrows that chirped and cheeped distractingly about the windows.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
But the storm demon kept watch above, and, whenever a flame was kindled, drove the smoke back again, choking the chimney’s sooty throat with its own breath.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Then we will once more entreat Homer and the other poets not to depict Achilles, who is the son of a goddess, first lying on his side, then on his back, and then on his face; then starting up and sailing in a frenzy along the shores of the barren sea; now taking the sooty ashes in both his hands and pouring them over his head, or weeping and wailing in the various modes which Homer has delineated.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Quotes with SOOTY (3)

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its …
Lester Bangs Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and shortly afterwards brought me a fish that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years. The breadcrumb armour-plating of the fish had been partly singed by the grill, and the prongs of my fork bent on it. Indeed it was so difficult to penetrate what eventually proved to be nothing but an empty shell that my plate was a hideous mess once the operatio…
W. G. Sebold
If you prefer smoke over firethen get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfumeyour mind's clothingwith more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left handand a sword in my right. There will be no damage control today. For God is in a moodto plunder your riches andfling you nakedlyinto such breathtaking povertythat all that will be left of youwill be a tendency to shine. So don't just sit around this flamechoking on your mind. …
Adyashanti
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).