What's the difference between dusty and lusty?

Dusty


Definition:

  • (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.

Lusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
  • (superl.) Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.
  • (superl.) Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.
  • (superl.) Lustful; lascivious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
  • (2) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
  • (3) Each of these MgATP sites contains a peptide from one of the internal duplicated regions of the enzyme molecule, which have previously been suggested as containing MgATP sites (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K. E., Widgren, E. E., and Lusty, C. J.
  • (4) The Swiss ping it around awhile, to a lusty chorus of "olé"s, led by the Brazilian contingent in the crowd I'll be bound.
  • (5) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
  • (6) 57 min After Zhirkov sees yellow for a typically lusty challenge, Sychev comes on to replace Saenko.
  • (7) 7.49pm BST 3 min: A lusty tackle by Bornw gives Karagandy a freekick some 40 yards out and a chance for the visitors to test whether Celtic have repaired their defence since last week.
  • (8) Since the catalytically active enzyme is a tetramer composed of four identical or closely similar subunits (Lusty, C.J., and Ratner, S. (1972) J. Biol.
  • (9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
  • (10) Sequence analysis has revealed internal duplication within the synthetase molecule (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K.E., Widgren, E.E., and Lusty, C.J.
  • (11) Hardcore taps into a 14-year-old boy’s brain, marinating in a vat of Mountain Dew, fantasising about high-energy kills, lusty women and loud music,” wrote Hoffman in September.
  • (12) Speeches calling for Britain to withdraw from the European Union were cheered with the lusty conviction that their dream of a divorce will turn into a reality.
  • (13) The Devils sat atop the UK box office chart for eight weeks, scandalising the masses with its tale of lusty priests and demented nuns in 17th-century France.
  • (14) In Sally's eyes, Tim is an irresistible bit of rough, dribbling with lusty physicality.
  • (15) Delafield, F. P. (University of California, Berkeley), M. Doudoroff, N. J. Palleroni, C. J. Lusty, and R. Contopoulos.
  • (16) Nasiri Bazanjani, the Iranian who cruised over the line seven metres ahead of the rest, also underlined the improvement in that country's performances at these Games and was greeted with lusty cheers as he received his gold.
  • (17) This has become a kind of Cannes tradition, a lusty whoop to get the proceedings under way, and it is invariably greeted with an affectionate ripple of laughter.
  • (18) Seen through the eyes of her sister, Elizabeth, she appears to be a vulgar, lusty hoyden, whose outrageous antics put all her sisters' reputations at risk.
  • (19) davidgray.com I’m getting oodles of eastern pride with lusty overtones of death or glory, I’m getting a spine of florid pomposity with top notes of Tom and Jerry, I’m getting Viennese marching music with a strong hint of moustache oil, I’m getting really bored, this thing goes on and on … Weighing in at a hefty five minutes, six seconds, this is officially the longest national anthem in the world.
  • (20) Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud gave the hosts the lead shortly before the hour mark but Romania levelled from the penalty spot, before Payet stepped up to arrow his shot into the top corner and prompted a lusty rendition of the La Marseillaise, sung as much in relief as in triumph.