Adjective

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* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Henry Murger, title=Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2005, date=June 10, author=Liz Armstrong, title=Summertime, and the Pleasures Are Guilty, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music." }}

Adjective

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Filled with or giving off smoke.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

* 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness

The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.

Having a flavour like smoke.

(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.

(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.

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