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Meanings of mustiness in English

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The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy.

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Usage of mustiness in English
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The barn's interior was ripe with the mustiness of moisture and age.
Bones to Ashes
2
Except for a slight mustiness the second egg was very palatable indeed.
The History of Mr. Polly
3
This ensures their being perfectly clean, and free from any possible mustiness.
Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) / Up-To-Date Health Cookery fo...
4
A salt damp and mustiness rose almost visibly around us on impact.
Broken angels
5
Then again, the air smelled like a mix of mustiness and ammonia.
Toxic
6
In spite of the mustiness, the small space looked fairly neat.
The Silent Sister
7
And the cold dankness of the air was lifting, its mustiness less pronounced.
The last testament
8
A smell of starch, wet linen and steam mingles with an aromatic mustiness.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
9
It hangs in the air, a deathly mustiness, sour and rotten.
The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
10
A mustiness that tells you the people who live there can't smell anymore.
Sympathy for the devil
11
He could smell death here, an unmistakable mustiness, an arid and fetid decay.
The First King of Shannara
12
The mustiness lent to the feeling of intrigue and incredulity the 7 CEO's felt.
Terminal Compromise
13
The mustiness here was of old books and museum exhibits.
Touching darkness
14
There was a strong smell of tropical mustiness, exhaust fumes, charcoal-grilled pork and sewage.
Death Trance
15
Its only foible is the smell of the leaf, which has a curious mustiness.
The Guardian
16
Miss Grumley leaned so close that Ginger could smell the mustiness of her coat.
Day by day
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Mustiness through the time