adust
Example Sentences
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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
A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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
