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warty

American  
[wawr-tee] / ˈwɔr ti /

adjective

wartier, wartiest
  1. having warts; covered with or as with warts.

  2. resembling a wart.


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Etymology

Origin of warty

First recorded in 1475–85; wart + -y 1

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A Chicago aquarium overcame one in a million odds to raise a warty frogfish.

From MarketWatch Mar. 13, 2026

The Bryants aren’t the only ones smiling by the time the last strips of white and purple tulle are wrapped around the mummy and the giant warty witch is securely tied against a tree.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 21, 2025

Emin’s oeuvre has only ever orbited one thing: herself, in her many mournful, voluptuous, warty, wild and furious incarnations.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2023

Meanwhile, there are warty pumpkins like the pink Galeaux d'Esyines.

From Salon Oct. 30, 2022

My eyes rose to Aunty Em’s hands, which had turned gnarled and warty, with sharp bronze talons for fingernails.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Moser writes that “one of her great themes” was “the distance between the shadow-world of images and the wartier reality of life.”

From Slate Oct. 2, 2019

He would grow up, a process recounted in his electric and electrifying new memoir, “Hitch-22,” to confront wartier bullies.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2010

“Most of the classes are over for the day, sir,” Nan replied, as Bess took much time in selecting the wartiest and biggest pickle in the Deuseldorf collection.

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe

No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark

A bloated toad, studded with dermal excrescences, was boasting that she was the wartiest creature alive.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

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