dusty

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For them to have remained in place -- dusty, lo-fi, and wordless -- these past 11 years would have surely doomed them to obscurity.

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  1. adjective Covered or filled with dust.
  2. adjective Consisting of or resembling dust; powdery.
  3. adjective Tinged with gray.

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dirty ·  wet ·  gray ·  muddy ·  dim ·  dingy ·  wooden
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  1. from Middle English dusty, dusti, from Anglo-Saxon dystig, dusty, from dust, dust: see dust and -y.
 

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