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  • adjective comparative form of rusty: more rusty

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Examples

  • In the “corten” steel box, no edges, the dark steel sheet, sometimes curved, rugged, gets rustier as the time goes by creating an even bigger contrast between these two elements.

    Club NOX by Metro Arquitectura 2009

  • A rusty hurricane fence slumped against even rustier posts, an ochre lattice with a skirt of windblown litter bunching at its feet.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • In states like Pa -- older, whiter, rustier, unionier, states where there are a lot of people who already have all the risk in their lives they can stand -- the undecideds have broken heavily for Hillary.

    ARG: Pennsylvania Primary Now Tied 2009

  • French, Thai, and Turkish, too, though they get rustier the further you go into the alphabet!

    O Holy Night Janet Ursel 2008

  • The more time away from training and the In-Training exams we took annually, created by the same Board the rustier one's grasp on the basics might be expected to grow.

    In Which I Must Brag (Because I Rock!) 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • The more time away from training and the In-Training exams we took annually, created by the same Board the rustier one's grasp on the basics might be expected to grow.

    Archive 2008-09-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • For those with french-language skills even rustier than mine, that last paragraph deserves at least a rough translation very rough, with apologies for the mangling:

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • 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.

    Ricochet Brown, Sandra 2006

  • My Spanish is growing rustier by the day, but the gist of it is:

    Feministing: October 2006 Archives 2006

  • The house looked darker, the roof was rustier, the heavy, iron-bound door into the shop, which was painted green, was covered with cracks, or, as the deaf man expressed it, “blisters”; and old Tsybukin seemed to have grown dingy, too.

    The Witch, and other stories 2004

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