rustfully

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adverb

In a rustful manner.

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Meanings

adverbrustfully (comparative more rustfully, superlative most rustfully)

comparative more rustfully · superlative most rustfully

  1. In a rustful manner.

    Load bearing Chrome butterflies that wreathe rustfully around my breast.

    2013 Authumn, A Vickery, “Roadside; Contagious feeling”, in Island, number 132
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    Her sister, the Nevada, is reposing “rustfully” in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool.

    1893, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 20, page 533

    He turned his slat chair, property of the house, squealing rustfully in the joints, so that he could not see the kitchen window.

    2013, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin: A Novel, →ISBN

Origin

From rustful + -ly.

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Cite this entry
APA

rustfully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rustfully

MLA

“rustfully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rustfully. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rustfully,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rustfully.

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