Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from dust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without dust; as a
dustless path.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Free of
dust . - adjective That does not
generate dust.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today, there seems to be an increasing number of floor-sanding firms that tout "dustless" or
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2010
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They were told by a building official is was OK, but later learned the city's codes on the issue were vague and the board began reviewing whether shell was a "dustless" material as required by the current code.
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Herein lies an unexpected cautionary tale for managers both dusty and dustless.
Leaving Apple in the Dust Joseph Sternberg 2011
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In addition, I remember firmly F'lar et. al. finding before they went back in time, I think? in the deep hidden mysteriously dustless, because so well-sealed reaches of Benden Weyr a room with a bunch of gobsmackingly confusing stuff, including what if you read it really carefully and thought about it became clearly a diagram of the local solar system.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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They leave things, too: cracked makeup cases and spent strings of firecrackers and graded arithmetic homework and dustless circles on a mantel where statuettes once stood.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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They leave things, too: cracked makeup cases and spent strings of firecrackers and graded arithmetic homework and dustless circles on a mantel where statuettes once stood.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Leaving the picnic basket in the kitchens, I returned to the late Beaton's surgery, now dustless and pristine after a visitation by Mrs. Fitz's energetic assistants.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Use a dustless method of cleaning such as washing with water and an effective detergent/wetting agent.
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But then, as the final drops reach the ground and many more perch unsteadily on the now dustless leaves, at that unprotected moment, when you are not quite sure that it has finally ceased raining, and neither is the rain itself, in that very interstice, everything becomes serene.
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I was drawn to one of the dustless white walls, which had a decorative plaster border, a representation of acorns and leaves.
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