rustilyadv.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. vi. sig. E1^v Their armour they should aswell as might be, couer, or at least make them looke so rustilie, and ill-fauouredly as might well become such wearers.

1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. D 3^v His spurres haue scaped a scouring, they looke so rustily.

1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. vi. sig. E4^v Nay, if thou dost begin to look rustily, I'll have thee paint thy face.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 7) x. 256 No bell—or one attached to a flagging, fluttering wire, that answers only by rustily, and peevishly, jarring and buzzing.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxx. 321 In conversation with a rustily-clad, miserable looking man.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xvi. 311 Other joints working rustily in the morning.

1918 N. Amer. Rev. June 886 The wheels of daily life would run very rustily if I refused.

1958 Kenyon Rev. 20 363 It only made her laugh louder, as rustily and merrily as a goat.

2009 Independent (Nexis) 19 June (News) 20 I felt burned out after a series of long foreign assignments, and my brain was rustily chug-chugging along at half-speed.