Definitions
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- adverb In a
fusty manner.
Etymologies
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fusty + -ly
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Examples
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Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets.
George Orwell 1984
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Wright overlaps the dialogue (seemingly to resurrect an Altman touch) yet he overlaps the four voices in such a way that we don't miss a word; the sequence is so fustily neat, it's drained of any life-like energy.
The House Next Door N.P. Thompson 2009
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