clarty
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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That clarty barm should stain my laurels: But—what'll ye say?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Between the beach and the sea-hill I sat my lane and grat my fill - I was sae clarty and hard and dark, And like the kye in the cow park!
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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 Begbie, Harold
That clarty barm should stain my laurels, But—what 'ill ye say?
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
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