Crossword clues for rustiest
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-superlativerusty)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "rustiest".
He was overdoing it so thoroughlythe oldest, rustiest of the trucks, the conspicuous absence of basic courte,sy-that she felt sure he was deliberately caricaturing the city impression of rustic redneck manners, even to his clothing-plaid shirt, clean but faded jeans, and the cap, which he did not remove.
She sorted through them carefully and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.
He went on with his writing, and presently the waiter ushered in a tall, gaunt woman, with a rugged, hard-featured face, dressed in the rustiest black, and carrying a brown-paper parcel.
Becker paid attention, the cat sprang up to his shoulder, lay against his neck and purred with a noise that rivaled that of the rustiest rattletrap engine of an outmoded junker ship.
It is the rustiest of cliches to say, upon the death of most people, that they were irreplaceable.
Curiously she pulled back the curtains, and saw what had to be the oldest, rustiest Ford ever to have passed its MOT sitting in the driveway.