Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling cotton-waste.
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Examples
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= And not the nasty wasty Panchos buffet that RrOeGgEoRr prefers to eat.
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I sins had upon what Shakspur calls the “wasty dip,” but never such a retched one as that from Dover to Balong, in the year Anna Domino 1818.
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Arr Kew Gardens 12:00, dep 18:30: Adjectives ailbhe 2005
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Then there are seasons when the crop turns out fairly well in class and staple, but the cotton is wasty, dirty, or abnormally leafy; and in this case the buyer has to exercise great care and judgment in calculating the extra loss that will ensue.
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Therefore some fifteen hundred of his constituents have written him a letter, and have said to him, "Dat he sall, de poo itty-witty darling-warling, have his placey-wacey as longey-wongey as he wants it, and the nasty-wasty one-legged soldiers sha'n't trouble him for situations any more, so they sha'n't."
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Well, to cut this sad subjik short, many and many a voyitch have I sins had upon what Shakspur calls the "wasty dip," but never such a retched one as that from Dover to Balong, in the year Anna Domino 1818.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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So it will be with us, if we continue our wasty, passive ways instead of putting those agent-subjects up front.
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"wasty ways" that had threatened the natural resources of
Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006
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-- you quit the lakes, the forests, and the lines; and this, too, for the towns and wasty ways of the settlements, and a little difference in the taste of the water.
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"wasty ways" which so disgraced us when game was abundant; the despised leg bone, which was wont to be thrown aside with such contempt, is now polished of every tendon of its covering, and the savory hump is used as a kind of dessert after a meal of coarser meat.
Townsend Chapter 7 1839
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