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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

Those arid beech-nuts, distilled by a complexion naturally adust, mounted into an occiput already prepared to kindle by long seclusion and the fervor of strict Calvinistic notions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

The sun rose high in the hard blue sky, and glared, as was his wont, upon the limitless pastures, dry and adust, the pale-hued, melancholy copses, the fast-falling river, the forgotten creeks.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

The dreamy mist of graceful cobwebs, festooning and fantastic, and many a tiny window all adust, softened his brilliancy to a dim, religious light.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various




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