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Meanings of frowsty in English

Stale and unclean smelling.

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        1
        Suddenly Dublin tap water has developed a certain earthy, musty, chlorinated charm.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The strange musty odor of unused houses hung heavy in the air.
        The Unspeakable Gentleman
        3
        The liquid was musty, having been in the skin nearly two days.
        The Wings of the Morning
        4
        If flour is musty; it is not kosher and must be destroyed.
        The International Jewish Cook Book / 1600 Recipes According to t...
        5
        James and Ralph were among the last ones into the musty space.
        James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
        1
        Here was a feisty young talent taking on an out-of-touch, fusty establishment.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
        2
        Pelham, please, do try not to be such a fusty old nanny.
        Warlord: an alex hawke novel
        3
        A fusty old cab, a four-wheeler, a growler, don't you call them?
        We Two: A Novel
        4
        Stereotype says they're fusty, but the reality is absolutely the opposite.
        Wired
        5
        We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
        The Guardian
        Usage of frowsty in English
        1
        The ancients could make life one long frowsty comfort if they chose.
        Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
        2
        The flat was clean but frowsty, stale cigarette smoke souring the air.
        Long time coming: a novel
        3
        For there are frowsty children, just as there are frowsty adults, who dont want freedom.
        Treatise on Parents and Children
        4
        Mingled with the brine was a frowsty putrescence which furred the roof of his mouth.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        5
        Take the aspidistra, for instance, which we associate with dark entrance halls of frowsty boarding houses.
        The Guardian
        6
        In a pretty frowsty old motel, but the food was good-ifyou have the time, I mean?
        Jem
        7
        The air was frowsty, the light thick.
        Long time coming: a novel
        8
        And inside the château funny old-fashioned things-oldbeds with frowsty canopies, and old wall-paperswith large designs in ferns and cornucopias.
        Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
        9
        Priscillus, the same rat-faced runt in what looked like exactly the same frowsty tunic, found his voice with a venomous wheeze.
        Venus In Copper
        10
        If Atius Pertinax wanted me to think him a frowsty lout with the habits of a gutter rat, he was halfway home.
        The Silver Pigs
        11
        I ran after you when I saw your hat go past the window, for I couldn't stand those frowsty old papers of Mark's any longer.
        The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story
        12
        'She smelt frowsty as a tiger's armpit and had no sense of time.
        Shadows in Bronze
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        Frowsty through the time