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gusty

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1. gusty - Adjective

2. gusty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. Alfred Noyes

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. Thomas Hood

The dullest was struck by the contrast between the harsh, taciturn, gloomy commander, and the pirate whose laugh was gusty and ready, who roared ribald songs in a dozen languages, guzzled ale like a toper, and-apparently-had no thought for the morrow. Robert E. Howard

Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds the torn hair round their paleness. Stephen Spender

And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars. Donna Tartt

A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector – these seven are always annoying to others. Hindi Proverb

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