Meaning of wasty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
2. Containing or yielding much waste.
3. Deteriorating, wasting away.
4. Obese; excessively fat.
5. Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
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6. Wasteful.
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Examples

“But, happily, we meet with circumstances that break in upon this routine and monotony, and we thank God, as Mungo Park did, when the moss peeped up at him from the wasty desert.”

“Frequent on wasty places and in the desert.”

“These boundaries were a long way down into the desert, below a corner of that fearful wasty wild known as the Great Erg.”

“It is formed of glacial rock in all sorts of shapes and sizes and gives a wasty, desert appearance.”

“A red-tailed hawk swooped down into a stand of prickly pears in a “wasty” moonscape.”

“This fruit was well packed and nicely graded, but unfortunately a wasty condition prevented satisfactory prices being obtained.”

“Then, too, the market demand is not so much for the extreme early maturing, excessive fat type, but it is for a trimmer, “less wasty” hog.”

“A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.”

“Young animals are angular and slightly thin-fleshed; mature animals are slightly thick-fleshed, but irregular in contour. Fat covering varies from thin in young animals to moderately thick in mature animals and may be patchy or wasty.”

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