1
as in archaic
having passed its time of use or usefulness
rusty laws still on the books because no one bothered to repeal them
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as in hoarse
harsh and dry in sound
in a rusty voice the old man ordered us off his land
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Recent Examples of rusty
Don’t depend on rusty pipes or faucets, drains or pumps that don’t work.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The walls will be covered with rusty knives, machetes and other terrifying tools that could be easily turned into deadly weapons.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Bringing in some rusty orange tones to steer clear of a ghost-like countenance, Freedman placed Giorgio Armani’s Luminous Silk Cheek Tint in shade 42 on her cheeks, a secret ingredient in his recipe for glass skin veneer.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
Now, 29 years after winning his first tour championship, retired golfer Happy Gilmore, despite being quite rusty, returns to the sport to pay for his daughter Vienna's ballet school.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The walls will be covered with rusty knives, machetes and other terrifying tools that could be easily turned into deadly weapons.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Bringing in some rusty orange tones to steer clear of a ghost-like countenance, Freedman placed Giorgio Armani’s Luminous Silk Cheek Tint in shade 42 on her cheeks, a secret ingredient in his recipe for glass skin veneer.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
Now, 29 years after winning his first tour championship, retired golfer Happy Gilmore, despite being quite rusty, returns to the sport to pay for his daughter Vienna's ballet school.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rusty
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Fresh meat was far from the only thing on the menu, according to a growing body of research that has revealed our archaic cousins ate a varied diet that included pulses and shellfish.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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Despite much innovation, financial services firms actually have some of the most archaic infrastructure and the highest levels of volatility.—
David Parker,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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For most of his first 10 songs, Costello’s singing was ragged and hoarse.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Screamed himself hoarse and still tried calling for his brother.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
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Gone are the days when antiquated approaches are the only approaches.—
Mark Temnycky,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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But, as the country unravelled, her cutesy jokes came to feel almost antiquated, out of touch.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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The central quartet of friends have a supportive connection underneath all their hormones and egos — Elba proves a standout as the gruff but warm defacto leader — that makes their bloody and sexed-up misadventures oddly wholesome.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2025
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Dougal MacKenzie loves a good prank — and so do the actors who play the gruff Highland Scot.—
Maureen Lee Lenker Published,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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There’s an assumption floating around that AI is going to make title insurance obsolete.—
Marc Shaw,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Yet the growing market of advanced artificial intelligence tools has threatened to make many junior coding jobs obsolete.—
Felicia Appenteng,
semafor.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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The exception may be the size of the potato gnocchi, husky rectangles of creamy potato dumplings in a lemon butter sauce, circling jumbo lump crab morsels dappled with chives.—
Beth D'Addono,
Southern Living,
4 Aug. 2025
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Hank’s son Bobby is no longer a husky middle-schooler, but a 21-year-old running his own Japanese-German fusion restaurant in Dallas, for instance.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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The Pacific Women’s Chorus of San Diego, a chamber chorus for treble voices that performs music ranging from medieval chants to current compositions is recruiting experienced choral sopranos and altos.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Kraków’s medieval heart beats beneath soaring Gothic towers and the echo of church bells over market stalls.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The fast-growing turbine business accounts for two-thirds of his net worth of $2 billion, with the rest mostly from a stake in the legacy company Triveni Engineering & Industries, which Sawhney’s older brother, Tarun, 51, runs as vice chairman and managing director.—
Anu Raghunathan,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Successive administrations let the old broadcast arms of American government abroad — Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia — slide into well-meaning obsolescence.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Rusty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rusty. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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