Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rusty state; in such a manner as to suggest rustiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rusty state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
rusty manner
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Examples
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It no doubt helped that my name was rustily familiar.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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It showed rustily through the creeping vines which overran it.
Page 3 2010
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England's batters, with the exception Alastair Cook , have performed rustily in their two warm-up games, against a Pakistan Cricket Board XI and a team made up of players from ICC associate and affiliate nations, but then that's why they have warm-up games.
Pakistan Transformed for Test vs. England Richard Lord 2012
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Like when you trip over an old plough left in a spinney between fields, and when you've finished having a good swear you discover the maker's name embossed on a crossbar shouting back at you, albeit somewhat rustily.
Archive 2007-07-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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Like when you trip over an old plough left in a spinney between fields, and when you've finished having a good swear you discover the maker's name embossed on a crossbar shouting back at you, albeit somewhat rustily.
Back to Nature Peter Ashley 2007
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"Wait, Ryan couldn't have seen -", his wheels were turning rustily.
simonebailey Diary Entry simonebailey 2008
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"Wait, Ryan couldn't have seen -", his wheels were turning rustily.
simonebailey Diary Entry simonebailey 2008
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Lowten, holding the door half open, was in conversation with a rustily – clad, miserable – looking man, in boots without toes and gloves without fingers.
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Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred.
Great Expectations 2007
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Flintwinch screwed this out of himself, unwillingly and rustily.
Little Dorrit 2007
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