misty
IPA: mˈɪsti
noun
- A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
adjective
- Covered in mist; foggy.
- (figuratively) Dim; vague; obscure.
- (figuratively) With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.
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Examples of "misty" in Sentences
- He called signals in misty breaths, then got decked when he let go of a pass.
- At night and in misty weather, patrols were sent out in the valley between ourselves and the Fascists.
- To the northwest a single sharp hill, the "Mont des Cats," stood out against the sky; the rest of the horizon was unbroken, and floating in misty moonlight.
- If you zoom the map all the way out until the whole world appears many times over a pattern in misty blue and grey you will see – we are practically next door, and the little markers put their small green heads together and whisper of our happiness.
- The moral contradictions of this era of British crime are summed up in misty Cockney reminiscences of the psychopathic Kray twins: lovely boys, proper gentlemen, always treated everyone with perfect manners — well, except for the people they killed.
- The celery aroma, which naturally turned out to be Galbanum, soon subsided into a gently green herbal quality, and the sugar turned into Orange Blossom and Lemon, leaving what I would describe as a misty fragrance with a touch of melancholy, like an early morning walk before the dew evaporates.
- By this time the towering beast was once more upon its feet, and Peter was puzzling his head for an order he had forgotten; but just as some misty notion of the Malay words was hovering in his brain the great trunk encircled his waist, he was lifted from the ground, and the next minute he was gliding safely into the mahout's place, his widely outstretched legs settling themselves behind the monster's ears.
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