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pitchy

/pich-ee/US // ˈpɪtʃ i //UK // (ˈpɪtʃɪ) //

黝黑的,黝黑,黝黑的人,黝黑的皮肤

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    pitch·i·er, pitch·i·est.

    • : full of or abounding in pitch.
    • : smeared with pitch.
    • : resembling pitch, as in color, consistency, etc.: pitchy mud.
    • : dark or black as pitch.

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Examples

  • The waves were small—around two to three feet—but steep and pitchy and would detonate in knee-deep water.

  • Back when I lived in Brooklyn in 2010, I used to take my 7’6″ funboard on the A train out to the Rockaways or on the Long Island Railroad to Long Beach, and while the waves are inconsistent and can be short and pitchy, they’re also really fun.

  • Her pitchy performance of “Tik Tok” in particular seemed to attract the ire of SNL audiences.

  • Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

  • The songs, which have creaky titles like “All that Razz” and “Hooray for What's-not-good,” are belted out with pitchy gusto.

  • In the pitchy darkness, the messenger encounters him, and running full tilt against him, knocks the bunch of keys into the mud.

  • The heavens above were of a pitchy darkness, and the only light was from the creaming foam of the sea on every side.

  • Kneeling down at the opening in the platform, they leaned over and shouted Delray's name into the pitchy darkness below.

  • In the course of years of exposure to the air this pitchy material crystallizes, "ripens," and becomes spruce gum.

  • To add to our difficulties, the sky clouded over and pitchy blackness settled down.