warty

[ wawr-tee ]

/ ˈwɔr ti /

adjective, wart·i·er, wart·i·est.

having warts; covered with or as with warts.

resembling a wart.

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earnest

full seriousness, as of intention or purpose.

a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

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Origin of warty

First recorded in 1475–85; wart + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM warty

wart·i·ness, noun

Words nearby warty

warthin's tumor, warthog, wartime, warton, warts and all, warty, warty dyskeratoma, warwick, warwickshire, wary, warzone

Example sentences from the Web for warty

Sometimes there is a warty thickening of the epidermis—lupus verrucosus.
Manual of Surgery|Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
He caught sight of the warty, scaly bulk of the monster at the extreme limit of the rays.
The Fifth-Dimension Tube|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
All this of the giant octopus—brown and warty and wrinkled and blas.
A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
At its other end was a heavy, warty fist, part of the anatomy of Baptiste, the industrious mechanic.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893|Various

The cacao of the criollo variety has pods the walls of which are thin and warty, with ten distinct furrows.
Cocoa and Chocolate|Arthur W. Knapp

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