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- adjective
comparative form ofrusty : morerusty
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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.
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French, Thai, and Turkish, too, though they get rustier the further you go into the alphabet!
O Holy Night Janet Ursel 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My Spanish is growing rustier by the day, but the gist of it is:
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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.
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