(superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
(superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
(superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
(superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
(superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
(superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
(superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(2) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(4) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
(5) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(6) With the breakdown of trapped hemoglobin, iron-containing hemosiderin is stored in synovial tissue producing rusty discoloration and proliferative reaction.
(7) 3.26am BST 62 mins The hour coming up is not lost on our Twitter followers Rusty (@bussruckley) But seriously, can Jurgen make a sub before its too late?
(8) The man with the rusty teeth struggles over the word on the whiteboard, one of a handful the teacher has written for the class.
(9) Rusty (@bussruckley) @KidWeil these vuvuzelas are death.
(10) Regardless, the England manager is keen to include Wilshere in the squad in the belief he boasts the required pedigree to succeed, however rusty he is after his lay-off.
(11) Diagnosis of the first case was made from fragments of an endometrial polyp obtained after curettage done because of a rusty vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain.
(12) As the interval arrived the home rear-defence had indeed been more composed, though Kompany’s rustiness caused two errors.
(13) He said allegations by a senior government official that the tools were rusty were untrue and that he wore gloves and a gown.
(14) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(15) Didier Drogba was making the first start of his second coming in these parts, but was understandably rusty and, long before the end, rather wheezing.
(16) A faint dog-collar effect is lent by that all-white chin, the rest of his rusty beard creeping over his cheeks like a delightful kind of lichen.
(17) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
(18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(19) Since Warp's minimal beginnings, they've built a legacy that has taken in a florally abundant range of styles, from the haunted psychedelia of Broadcast to Bibio, Boards Of Canada, Black Dog Productions and Rustie .
(20) Mesut Özil, Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sánchez, restored after his exertions at the Copa América, all revelled where they had been so rusty at the Emirates Stadium the previous week as Arsenal whipped up the kind of upbeat tempo they had enjoyed in the spring, when, albeit in a game of catch-up, they had been the Premier League’s resurgent force.
Trusty
Definition:
(superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
(superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
(superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.
Example Sentences:
(1) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
(2) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(5) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(6) In the literature exist investigations made to extensive series of patients, with premalignant oral lesions or suspicious of malignancy, in which it has been employed toluidine blue (TB), to verify the trustiness of this method as a resource for support in clinical diagnosis.
(7) It is urgent to create a national trusty and dynamic structure to make possible the organization and coordination of CME and respective evaluation.
(8) Five male establishment trusties with top security clearance were locked in a room for four months and produced a unanimous report recommending some changes, a few of which have made it into law in the USA Freedom Act.
(9) Southampton are without a manager and start pre-season back on trusty square one but still the rumours fly.
(10) According to trusty Wikipedia, Leighton has three children, Steel has three and Rake has four (and five stepchildren).
(11) Part of the reason that we aimed low was our trusty old friend – the Lili model (Leading Indicator for Leading Indicators).
(12) They were cheered on by the trusties of the British press – a fertile recruiting ground for British intelligence and the CIA over many years.
(13) Labour ISC trusty George Howarth implied that the ISC hadn't – indeed, had only examined the issue after the Guardian's exposé in June, which he deemed legitimate but "unwise".
(14) You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
(15) And, in the case of Molly Drake, a trusty outlet for a side of her personality rarely revealed by her outwardly sunny disposition.
(16) Back in London, my trusty e-cig became the object of increasing curiosity.
(17) The Tories' starchy blue "Invitation to Join the Government of Britain" reminds me of a book of trusty, well-established hymns.
(18) For those trusty conservative cliches about getting on and getting ahead are unravelling.
(19) He smiles as he lugs his trusty axe into a waiting car.
(20) "I often," he says, "found myself in a position to discover more about the real lives of stars when my trusty tape recorder was off…" What notes he made are on "scrappy bits of paper" whose relevance only he can understand.