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adust

[uh-duhst] / əˈdʌst /
ADJECTIVE
sunburned
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
pale pallid white-skinned


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It will also adust food court seating, shutter play areas and drinking fountains and restrict the number of sinks and urinals in restrooms.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

The culture in the field, once cordial and collaborative, became openly combative, as scientists adjusted to new norms of public critique while still struggling to adust to new standards of evidence.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2017

The "meagre, muse-rid mope, adust and thin" will commonly do better work when tucked out with three square meals a day, and having the sure and certain hope of their continuance.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

If neither of these is the case, they must sometimes sympathize with that dreary dilemma of Bias which the adust Aldrich quotes in grim irony—Εἴ μὲν κάλην, ἕξεις κοίνην, εἰ δ᾽ αἰσχρὰν, ποίνην.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

August flares adust and torrid, But my heart is full of April Sap and sweetness.

From Poems by Henley, William Ernest




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