0 covered with soot -- đầy bồ hóng
their sooty faces.
1 of the colour/color of soot. -- đen như bồ hóng
By the time he got to the end of his journey, the gauze was sooty and dirty, giving a clear sign of the pollution that then existed.
Dirty water, sooty air, the fumes from charcoal cooking fires, soil erosion and flash floods are all hazards that have long since been tackled in the rich world.
Is not this a case of the pot calling the pan rather sooty?
In fact, editorials on this subject are frequently excellent examples of the pan calling the kettle sooty-bottomed.
It is not only the sooty particulates and the lead, but chlorofluorocarbons from the blown foam and the dioxins from the plastics that are dangerous.
There are parts of our inheritance—dereliction, dirty rivers and sooty air—which we need to get rid of as fast as we can.
Coal as a source of energy is much discredited, because it is dirty and sooty.
Sooty dust usually arrives at the same time as the grit, stains anything it falls upon, particularly washing.
