clarty
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Better to give the real, the only excuse, and say that the soil is so—no, not adhesive, not sticky, not tenacious, but, to use a word ten thousand times more expressive than these, so clarty.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
Forby that, I could not let my son mix with their bairns for fear they should teach him the vulgar Thrums words and clarty his blue-velvet suit.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
That clarty barm should stain my laurels: But—what'll ye say?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
That clarty barm should stain my laurels; But—what’ll ye say!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
That clarty barm should stain my laurels, But—what 'ill ye say?
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
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