smoggy

[smog-ee, smaw-gee]

adjective

smoggier, smoggiest 

1. full of or characterized by smog.

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoggy¹

First recorded in 1925–30; smog + -y ¹

Example Sentences

California air regulators have long maintained that air quality issues in major California cities — including smoggy Los Angeles — are so severe that electric vehicles are necessary to meet pollution standards.

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The mask and Delhi's smoggy air feature in other scenes of the film but are of little relevance to its plot.

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But now, that cancer-inducing complex has given way to something completely different: green space that has brought a breath of fresh air to Bangkok’s congested, often smoggy center.

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The downside of rapid expansion of logging, mining and other resource extraction has been razing of rainforests, pollution of coastal waters and waterways and smoggy cities.

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With days of more pollutants building up close to the ground, then the smoggy layer became toxic and very dense.

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