dusty
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- adjective
- /ˈdʌsti/
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polvoriento
- The crew of the U.S.S. Phoenix set down on the dry, hard, dusty planet of Mars.
- a dusty road
- drive on dusty roads
- dry and dusty
We have our rusty, dusty, burnt up check valves.
- We have our rusty, dusty, burnt up check valves.
- Those cabinets are fucking dusty, dirty and scary as shit.
- I'm on my back and it's just gone dark, dusty sand everywhere.
- And I went tearing off down that dusty, sandy place.
- Careless piles, dusty board games, unloved dolls.
Examples
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Inside, the old Palace is cool and smells of floor wax, dusty fabric, and masonry.
Fiction book (1990) -
I look at you, and I see myself years ago... ...with the same love for the smell of the old brown books... ...and the dusty office.
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Everything does look quite dusty, right?
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It's a little too dusty and brown, yes, brown, Yeah.
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It's just a little dusty out here.
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Why are they so dusty?
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Salinas was just a dusty town in Northern California.
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She spends most nights here crying alone in this dusty kitchen.
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Eventually, we veered off the paved road onto a dusty dirt road.
Academic text (2011) -
The old bookshelf was covered in a thick layer of d dusty books that hadn't been touched in years.
Synonyms
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Not clean or covered with dirt
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Dirty and covered in dust, food, or grease
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Having a thin layer of dust on it
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Etymology
Dusty comes from the simple word dust plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'covered with'. So something dusty is literally covered in dust, like an old bicycle in a garage.