dustier; dustiest
1
: covered or abounding with dust
2
: consisting of dust : powdery
3
: resembling dust
4
: lacking vitality : dry
dusty scholarship
5
British
: unsatisfactory
—used especially in the phrases dusty answer and not so dusty
Examples of dusty in a Sentence
He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
His new tie is a dusty blue.
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People pour in from the dense warrens of India’s financial capital and from dusty villages thousands of kilometers away, all flowing towards the fortified, sea-facing Mumbai home of actor Shah Rukh Khan.
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Don’t expect your dusty furniture to suddenly look spotless.
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Workers are startled when a jar tumbles out of a dusty box and rolls onto the ground.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Messier 61 appears to have a massive, dusty disk, but doesn’t appear — at least at first glance — to be exhibiting an ongoing or a recent gravitational interaction.
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Don’t expect your dusty furniture to suddenly look spotless.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
Workers are startled when a jar tumbles out of a dusty box and rolls onto the ground.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Messier 61 appears to have a massive, dusty disk, but doesn’t appear — at least at first glance — to be exhibiting an ongoing or a recent gravitational interaction.
—Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dusty
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“Dusty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dusty. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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