Crusty in a sentence as an adjective

A crusty veteran, will just overrule them and say, "follow tradition".

Boom, I'm immediately picked up as a Jr. VP in a large and powerful, but old and crusty megacorp.

It is heartening to see the people working on LibreOffice putting in the hard work to clean up such and old and crusty code base.

I can pick up a crusty magazine and **** through it, cutting across a whole bunch of topics and their surrounding context.

Interesting development, but to be a bit crusty, statements like:"It is easier to write correct Go code than to write correct C code.

Its a layer that sits on top of an old, crusty infrastructure that hopefully crumbles with time, but until then, we have to deal with it somehow.

Back when I was studying these models I found more crusty old patents related to these types of models than relevant papers on the Internet.

That information is a lot more likely to stick in your head if you know the reason for it instead of just saying "here's another quirk of this crusty, weird architecture.

I was already using Clojure at home, and I recognized the author, so I lunged for it. None of the other programmers had even heard of Lisp, and had no idea why we had the book, so they let me keep it. I wonder how many other old, crusty software shops have gems like that just collecting dust.

Unless you are running osmocomBB on a crusty old Motorola brick with a logger between the phone and SIM to check for anomalous activity, don't touch it with a 3m pole.

Well, there's also the "social and signaling effects" of using something that's non-git, that Eric S. Raymond articulates well: "we cannot afford to make or adhere to choices that further cast the project as crusty, insular, and backward-looking.

The thing that strikes me whenever I hear those crusty old old-media guys talking is that the reality of the generations growing up today is so entirely different.

Everything loose in the car ended up on the headliner -- change, jackets, crusty old french fry bits...BTW: You are almost certainly not strong enough to support yourself by one hand while you unbuckle.

EDI, it's old and crusty and expensive and annoying because all of the current software out there is **** but it solves this for companies as big as WalMart down to your local Mom and Pop corner store.

In addition, I think there's an unfortunate tendency among programmers to wear the "crusty curmudgeon with borderline autism" as a kind of pride, even emulating it to be more credible.

One major reason there have been 32-bit versions of all Windows releases up to and including Windows 8 is so that corporations big and small will be able to seamlessly continue running their crusty Win16 and MS-DOS legacy applications.

Crusty definitions

adjective

having a hardened crust as a covering

See also: crusted encrusted crustlike

adjective

brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

See also: curmudgeonly gruff ill-humored ill-humoured