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Definition of dusty :
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Synonyms:
mothy, insensate, big, untouched, soiled, cold-blooded, stale, cold, moth-eaten, ratty, pulverous, dust-covered, tatty, frigid, pulverulent, unused, fine, inhuman
powdery (part of speech: adjective)
floury, crumbly, mealy, powdery, sandy, chalky
unclean (part of speech: adjective)
icky, septic, foul, filthy, scatological, defiled, muddy, grimy, mucky, odious, unclean, shabby, sordid, grungy, insalubrious, impure, squalid, grubby, unhygenic, smutty, scruffy, untidy, fetid, festering, disgusting, sloppy, putrid, dirty, unsanitary, infectious, crummy, slovenly, murky, offensive, obscene, toxic, dingy
Usage examples:
- This was the Truth that had grown dusty and neglected in England in this seventeenth century. - "A Book of Quaker Saints", Lucy Violet Hodgkin.
- And I'll tell you, it made me feel that my lot was not hard when I saw one of those sweet, modest little girls passing around a cup, her mother playing in the dusty street, and her sister singing,- to just any one that would listen. - "Tales of the Road", Charles N. Crewdson.
- I looked over my shoulder, and, by Jove, there at the top of the gangway in evening dress, dusty to the eyebrows and without a hat, was dear old George. - "My Man Jeeves", P. G. Wodehouse.