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  • adjective superlative form of rusty: most rusty.

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Examples

  • Even on Craigslist, the rustiest, sorriest bicycles pulled from the Gowanus start at $150.

    High-Value Rust on Wheels Anne Kadet 2011

  • The tiniest, rustiest bit of metal discarded or stolen in the Triangle is wrapped up in a powerful global market that connects junkmen, recyclers and thieves with a construction boom in east Asia.

    When I See Garbage, I Think of You! 2007

  • The tiniest, rustiest bit of metal discarded or stolen in the Triangle is wrapped up in a powerful global market that connects junkmen, recyclers and thieves with a construction boom in east Asia.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • The voice of the Sawyer was more dry than that of his oldest and rustiest saw.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He was ever clothed in the very rustiest brown black that age can produce.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • Mr. O'Neill accomplished great, creative things at Alcoa, one of the rustiest American companies, which is cause for confidence, unless it turns out he used the Lucent accounting model.

    Bush's Rushed, Sloppy Tax Plan? Here's My More Elegant Idea 2001

  • Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew how to open with them the most creaking of all gates.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Mr. O'Neill accomplished great, creative things at Alcoa, one of the rustiest American companies, which is cause for confidence, unless it turns out he used the Lucent accounting model.

    Bush's Rushed, Sloppy Tax Plan? Here's My More Elegant Idea 2001

  • He went on with his writing, and presently the waiter ushered in a tall, gaunt woman, with a rugged, hard-featured face, dressed in the rustiest black, and carrying a brown-paper parcel.

    The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

  • Mrs. Brown was a bony woman of sixty, dressed in the rustiest black, and carrying a handbag made, apparently, from the hide of the original animal that

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

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