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fuliginous

[fyoo-lij-uh-nuhs] / fyuˈlɪdʒ ə nəs /






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The commercial coagulation on Manhattan's western bank is no stranger than Cleveland's hideous, eastern waterfront, Cincinnati's and Pittsburgh's smoke-draggled riverbanks or Chicago's fuliginous south shore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the streets of London stirred a cold fuliginous fog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Internally this holds good; externally it discourages understanding about as effectively as the most fuliginous medieval cabal.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the top of his form Critic DeVoto suggested a geyser ejecting a column of live steam, accompanied by deep, sometimes rather incoherent rumblings, hisses, falling rocks, lava, fuliginous fumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

I toy with shouting some tidbit more—some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex—but my heart’s not in it.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner




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