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smoky

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1. smoky - Adjective

3. smoky - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.

Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.

Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.

Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.

Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.

Suspicious; open to suspicion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires. Stevie Smith

My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever. Leona Lewis

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. Roger Kahn

The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew. Wallace Stevens

If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. Bill Bryson

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