(superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
(superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
(3) As a result of the findings, a further study was undertaken by the same research team to investigate one possible solution to the problem of alcohol consumption at work in a paper-producing factory, predominantly under hot and dusty conditions.
(4) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(5) Two cases of PAME in children occurring during dusty harmattan period in Northern Nigeria are reported.
(6) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
(8) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
(9) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(10) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
(11) The results indicated that the manner in which a powder is handled may be as important as material dustiness as measured by a dustiness tester.
(12) dusty atmosphere also influence the tolerance; local state of the tissues.
(13) Politicians who claimed to sense the hand of history on their shoulders got a dusty response from Simon, especially if they did so in verbless sentences.
(14) These results show that antismoking campaigns are important among workers in a dusty work environment.
(15) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
(16) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
(17) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(18) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(19) A few yards in the dusty distance are some small houses; in better days, these served as nurses' quarters.
(20) 766 dockers exposed to dusty materials were examined.
Fusty
Definition:
(superl) Moping.
(superl) Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simply, Apple is a gigantic company, and iOS in particular is seen as being at a crossroads: Android has overtaken it in sales terms and many critics say it offers users more flexibility – so what's Apple going to do to stop the iPhone looking fusty?
(2) It is thought that her biggest challenge will be helping M&S clothes, which have been criticised as fusty, appeal to a younger audience, something she had experience of while working at Jaeger.
(3) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
(4) He has transformed the image of Burberry from a fusty, aging brand worn by middle-aged golfers or ripped off for the football terraces into a modern global empire.
(5) In her slightly fusty offices off Drury Lane, Michel enthuses about the new TV and internet-based deals for clients, from Simon Schama to Twiggy (she has a planned musical), and garden writer Sarah Raven, Michel's first client.
(6) Wednesday gave the lie to the idea that our young people are thoroughly post-ideological creatures, with no fight in them; if even the most fusty newspapers are worried about the chasm that separates the government from the so-called squeezed middle, you can bet that the politics of class may yet make an unexpected comeback.
(7) Credit unions have had a fusty reputation in the past, restricting their membership to people in certain professions or to small community groups.
(8) This is fusty, old-school outrage, spluttered in your mind's eye by a swivel-eyed ex-colonel with dangerously high blood pressure.
(9) To begin with, it was a different kind of image problem: in Georgian society gin was considered rackety and sordid, not fusty and old-fashioned as it was in the swinging 60s.
(10) His image is fusty and secretive, but he's the first prime minister to sit in an open-plan office in Downing Street.
(11) In 2006, Ahrendts got a call from fellow American Rose Marie Bravo who had been busy resuscitating the fusty old British brand Burberry .
(12) Critical verdict Self knits a dense patchwork of high-minded low living (he ascribes the "weirdly fusty narrative voice in some of my work" to his cerebral childhood).
(13) It's an interesting cultural moment: on the one hand, the self-appointed cyberhustler experts in the "future of news" spend their time mocking the fustiness of old media; on the other hand, a star online destination wants to sound more like one of its paper-based predecessors.
(14) Here's Purcell meeting David Lodge at a rave (Love Is a Bourgeois Construct), dirty techno inspired by Michael Gambon's description of theatre (Shouting in the Evening), a collaboration with Example which doesn't sound fusty, but fresh (Thursday) plus tons of ambition, life, light and noise.
(15) With its crab cakes, wedge salad and a range of steaks up to a mahoosive 48oz porterhouse, it’s a magnificent and mildly fusty slice of unreconstructed, Rat Pack-era Americana.
(16) The documentary, she says, painted her as "the forward-looking, thrusting, blond, ball-breaking editor versus the fusty inherited family business".
(17) We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
(18) Take it to a bookshop The fusty old book business may still be a lifeline for self-published authors and its collapse hurts all authors.
(19) The Union Jack backdrop and jacket represent both a punky subversion of a national symbol and a serious statement about the rebranding of a fusty, static, class-ridden country as the international centre of a synaesthetic youth culture.
(20) I don't see why fusty tradition, principally upheld by the FTSE-Ferrari crowd, should insist on it as the professional norm.