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salty

adjective as in flavored with sodium chloride

adjective as in spicy, colorful

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A familiar briny breeze floats by, filling my nose with a salty scent.

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Perhaps she had come to prevent her unhappy customer from dripping hot salty tears on the books.

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A gang of salty hooligans jumped us from behind.

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Lady Constance had read and reread the society page so many times and dropped so many salty tears upon it, she now had black ink smudges all over her hands and face.

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A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia is challenging a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite - the polarising, salty spread that has become a national symbol.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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