What is "undusted"

Usage examples of "undusted".

Not just one or two that might have floated in from a corner of the room left undusted, but as much as ever, brown ringlets and curlicues of keratin lying stark against the white sheets.

I expected a chaotic apartment with ten cats, undusted tchotchkes, and piles of magazines from the Johnson administration, but I did.

It was considerably out of repair, and most probably was never entered by anyone save Maria Lisle, its unswept, undusted condition suggesting colonies of spiders and other creeping things within.

The furniture was utilitarian and undusted, though surprisingly uncluttered.

We were standing in a large hall and I could see that, although everything seemed worn and undusted, there was some valuable furniture there, rugs and chairs and a particularly fine gate-legged table.

My mother had made perfect order in her home in large part because her husband craved it, and then she had disordered it-the undusted tables, the wheelchair, the night terrors, the hospital bed, the smell of rank perspiration and chemicals.

He was slumped in a chair, looking hopelessly at the untidy stacks of papers and undusted ledgers that had accumulated on every horizontal surface.

She lifted a flat, opaque plastic bag by one corner, holding it gingerly, like undusted murder evidence.

He soon returned from the kitchen with four small baskets and an undusted bottle of Amontillado.

Pitt Street to the small, shabby brick building hidden away among ship chandleries, fish shops, and wool stores, up a narrow and never dusted flight of stairs into a narrow and equally undusted passage, with hardly room for two men to walk abreast.

Three moose heads, long undusted, stared down at me as I chatted with Paul Garrett, forty-six years old, tall and graying at the temples.

Nothing was undusted, or untended, or unremarked upon, or without meaning.

The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage, while the house-maid took charge of the children, and the drawing-room went undusted.