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Recent Examples of rutty
Running terrain of the rocky-rooty-rutty variety is fun and rewarding, but no easy task.
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Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2025
Bills owner Terry Pegula has implored coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane to coax more of an executive demeanor out of Allen, a transformation that never took last year and likely added to Allen’s rutty play through 10 games.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
The roads were too rutty for the other guests to complete their transit, and the storm clouds above had stopped all domestic air transfers as well.
—Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
Surface at Garden was far from ideal When a Zamboni took its first laps around an NHL arena, at Boston Garden in the fall of 1954, players might have scoffed that nothing man-made could help the wretched, rutty surface.
—Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2025
Bills owner Terry Pegula has implored coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane to coax more of an executive demeanor out of Allen, a transformation that never took last year and likely added to Allen’s rutty play through 10 games.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
The roads were too rutty for the other guests to complete their transit, and the storm clouds above had stopped all domestic air transfers as well.
—Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
Surface at Garden was far from ideal When a Zamboni took its first laps around an NHL arena, at Boston Garden in the fall of 1954, players might have scoffed that nothing man-made could help the wretched, rutty surface.
—Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rutty
Adjective
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The route is washboarded and deeply rutted in several long stretches, as well as prone to washouts.—
Taryn Shorr-Mckee,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Dec. 2025
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And then there were pics of Ben several years on, driving himself to class through the rutted streets of Cambridge in his motorized chair, or engulfed on the sideline by his teammates at the annual Yale-Harvard classic.—
Nick Stern,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Australian actor debuted long retro sideburns and long dark wavy hair while telling the real-life story of a Neil Diamond tribute band in Song Sung Blue opposite Kate Hudson last year.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Lubeck, who has aquamarine eyes and long, wavy hair, cuts an ethereal figure, like an elven noble.—
Emilia Petrarca,
New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Rutty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rutty. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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