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misty

[mis-tee] / ˈmɪs ti /


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That more humid air paired with light winds across England and Wales into Tuesday means some will start off rather misty and foggy.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Scott was already unmistakably a visual stylist — these misty landscapes and candlelit interiors often look like paintings come to life — but he also seems keenly aware of the absurdity of it all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Allen Moyer’s set used conveyer belts to slide furniture in from the wings; Greg Emetaz’s misty videos included projections of Orpheus and Eurydice, a subtext in the work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

North Sea coasts from Northumberland to Suffolk could remain cloudy and misty on Saturday but should be much sunnier on Sunday.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

I don't want to see her misty eyes.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

Gray and damp at 10 a.m., it proved grayer, mistier and wetter at 6 p.m.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

But this version of “The Visit” has another dimension, too, a mistier one that exalts the notion of deathless love.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015

The “twilight” of the exhibition’s title has as much to do with the mistier regions of consciousness as with the borderlands of real-world time and space.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010

Time passed; the memory of those ghastly days              In Colchis dimmer grew and mistier.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

“I think we will leave the lesson here for today,” said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

It was the mistiest spot I ever visited.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Jacob Boehm's mistiest dreams are clearness itself compared with the English prophet's utterances.

From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

It was as picturesque as Battersea in Whistler's mistiest days.

From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley

Experiments were indeed being made at the same time, with a view to armour-plating the hulls of ships, but all that was still in the dimmest and mistiest future.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd


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