Crossword clues for rustier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rusty \Rust"y\, a. [AS. rustig.] [Compar. Rustier; superl. Rustiest.]
Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
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Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
[Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown.
--Shak. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ``Rusty words.''
--Piers Plowman.Rust-colored; dark. ``Rusty blood.''
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Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces.
--Hawthorne. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativerusty)
WordNet
See rusty
Usage examples of "rustier".
The padlock was small and rusted, and it looped through an even rustier hasp, which easily came off the door with a splintering sound.
Down here, the fittings were rustier, the dwellings more haphazard, but Kham felt more comfortable in these parts.
Roland was pointing his gun at another oil-pump, this one rustier and older than the ones out front.
John hurried across the ugly acre of waste ground behind the store, stepping over a broken crate and weaving his way between a rusty incinerator and a pile of even rustier machine parts.
She was rustier than ever -- more woe-begone than any vessel seen in those classic waters since the lusty days of Ulysses.
He forced himself to climb the creaky staircase and check the upstairs rooms, but they were all empty save for one of the bedrooms that contained a rusty iron bedstead with even rustier springs.
Latin had grown rustier than the oldest iron in his stock, but was not yet utterly worn away.
She knew what it was even before she picked it up: the hypodermic that had never been used, now rustier than ever, its cap still on.
Next to the rusted tracks and between the even rustier I-beams, the floor is covered with condom wrappers, cigarette butts, and at least two used hypodermic needles.