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Meanings of fusty in English

Stale and unclean smelling.

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        Old-fashioned and out of date.

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              Usage of fusty in English
              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
              6
              Get over it. Just show us the golf, you fusty shower of cranks.
              The Irish Times
              7
              The fusty familiarity of an old-fashioned woollen blanket, pulled up over his face.
              Another life
              8
              He should have preached on the fusty roads... View Article
              The new yorker
              9
              The royal family and the fusty establishment, very much out.
              News.com.au
              10
              Our house was too small and I was getting to look fusty and frowsy.
              The Opinions of a Philosopher
              11
              Once again he delved deeply into fusty Monster files and found a startling clue.
              The monster of florence
              12
              I wouldn't mind if I blew a cloud, as well as you, old fusty-musty.
              The Pacha of Many Tales
              13
              The sack smelled old and fusty but it somehow helped my breathing to steady.
              Act of will
              14
              A fusty, musty smell was in the room, in the air of the staircase, everywhere.
              Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
              15
              But a band of up-and-coming performers will partly compensate and help banish Venice's fusty image.
              Reuters
              16
              They only hold dust and make the room fusty.
              Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
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