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amnesty
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n 1: a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
2: a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
[syn: pardon, amnesty]
3: the formal act of liberating someone [syn: amnesty,
pardon, free pardon]
v 1: grant a pardon to (a group of people)
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bloodthirsty
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adj 1: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;
"bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went
after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that
drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn:
bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary]
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busty
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adj 1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing
curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a
curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy,
busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed,
sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-
endowed]
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chesty
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adj 1: marked by a large or well-developed chest; "he was big-
chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed" [syn: big-
chested, chesty]
2: having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of
overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims";
"chesty as a peacock" [syn: arrogant, chesty, self-
important]
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crusty
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adj 1: having a hardened crust as a covering [syn: crusted,
encrusted, crusty, crustlike]
2: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty
old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff
reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-
humored, ill-humoured]
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dishonesty
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n 1: the quality of being dishonest [ant: honestness,
honesty]
2: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn:
dishonesty, knavery]
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dusty
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adj 1: covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
[syn: dusty, dust-covered]
2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-
eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold,
stale, dusty, moth-eaten]
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feisty
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adj 1: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
challenger" [syn: feisty, plucky, spunky]
2: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned,
feisty, touchy]
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frosty
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adj 1: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of
unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a
frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a
glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn:
frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]
2: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed
and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty, rimed,
rimy]
3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy,
snappy]
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fusty
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adj 1: stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty,
frowsty]
2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: fusty, standpat(a),
unprogressive, nonprogressive]
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gusty
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adj 1: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy
off-shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: gusty, puffy]
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hasty
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adj 1: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush
to sell" [syn: hasty, headlong]
2: done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty
makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes;
"rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for
reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather
precipitate in deposing the king" [syn: hasty, overhasty,
precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]
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lusty
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adj 1: vigorously passionate [syn: lustful, lusty,
concupiscent]
2: endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a
hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, full-blooded,
lusty, red-blooded]
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misty
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adj 1: filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October
morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty]
2: wet with mist; "the misty evening"
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musty
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adj 1: covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy
(or musty) odor" [syn: moldy, mouldy, musty]
2: stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty, frowsty]
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nasty
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adj 1: offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty
mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty
smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty
things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound [syn: nasty,
awful] [ant: nice]
2: exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty
problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight
situation" [syn: nasty, tight]
3: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy, foul,
nasty, smutty]
4: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
"as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a
room" [syn: filthy, foul, nasty]
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pasty
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adj 1: resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and
red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now
chalky white" [syn: pasty, pastelike]
2: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey,
glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky,
viscid, viscous]
n 1: small meat pie or turnover
2: (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive
patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and
striptease performers
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rusty
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adj 1: covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine";
"rusty deposits"
2: of the brown color of rust [syn: rust, rusty, rust-
brown]
3: impaired in skill by neglect [syn: out of practice(p),
rusty]
4: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty]
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sixty
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adj 1: being ten more than fifty [syn: sixty, 60, lx,
threescore]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
[syn: sixty, 60, LX]
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tasty
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adj 1: pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel" [ant:
tasteless]
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testy
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adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
[syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome,
peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy,
testy, tetchy, techy]
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thirsty
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adj 1: needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"
2: feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the
children were thirsty" [ant: hungry]
3: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for
knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for
informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]
4: able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty
towels"
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trusty
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adj 1: worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an
experienced and trustworthy traveling companion" [syn:
trustworthy, trusty] [ant: untrustworthy,
untrusty]
n 1: a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special
privileges
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yeasty
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adj 1: of or resembling or containing yeast [syn: yeasty,
yeastlike]
2: marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: zestful, yeasty,
zesty, barmy]
3: exuberantly creative
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zesty
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adj 1: having an agreeably pungent taste [syn: piquant,
savory, savoury, spicy, zesty]
2: marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: zestful, yeasty,
zesty, barmy]
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testee
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n 1: someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an
academic examination) [syn: testee, examinee]
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teste
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vestee
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cesti
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