musty

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The hotels are among the worst on earth--musty, old-fashioned, and villainously expensive--and one of the happiest moments in my life was the day when I left Dinard for Mont St. Michel. Mont St. Michel is one of the most out-of-the-way, un-get-at-able places I found in all Europe; but, oh, how it rewards one who arrives Mont St. Michel is too well known to need a description.

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  1. adjective Stale or moldy in odor or taste.
  2. adjective Hackneyed or trite; dull.
  3. adjective Out of date; antiquated.
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  • After the chill downstairs the room felt warm and musty, the air spiced with the smell of paper. —  Flowers for the Judge - Margery Allingham - Campion 07 - 1937
  • "I thought I could lay my hands on it promptly Christopher Burley and I stood behind his chair looking over his shoulders, as he turned the faded, musty-smelling leaves one by one. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
  • On they came, one after another, these startling surprises from out these musty-fusty piles of papers. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
  • I don't care much for those fusty-musty old histories. —  Ahead of the Army
  • If this should be observed even on Saturday night and Sunday, there would be fewer cases of "Monday morning sickness," such as colics and lymphangitis Feeds should also be of a more laxative nature when the horse is to stand for several days MUSTY OR MOLDY FEEDS.--Above all things, avoid feeding musty or moldy feeds. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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dank ·  stale ·  fetid ·  dusty ·  smoky ·  musky ·  stuffy ·  dingy ·  acrid ·  mouldy ·  moldy ·  salty
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of obsolete moisty, from moist.

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  1. A variant of moisty, conformed to the orig. noun must: see moisty, moist, must.
  2. from musty, adjective
 

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