Stale and unclean smelling.
1 The ancients could make life one long frowsty comfort if they chose.
2 The flat was clean but frowsty , stale cigarette smoke souring the air.
3 For there are frowsty children, just as there are frowsty adults, who dont want freedom.
4 Mingled with the brine was a frowsty putrescence which furred the roof of his mouth.
5 Take the aspidistra, for instance, which we associate with dark entrance halls of frowsty boarding houses.
6 In a pretty frowsty old motel, but the food was good-ifyou have the time, I mean?
7 The air was frowsty , the light thick.
8 And inside the château funny old-fashioned things-oldbeds with frowsty canopies, and old wall-paperswith large designs in ferns and cornucopias.
9 Priscillus, the same rat-faced runt in what looked like exactly the same frowsty tunic, found his voice with a venomous wheeze.
10 If Atius Pertinax wanted me to think him a frowsty lout with the habits of a gutter rat, he was halfway home.
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.
12 'She smelt frowsty as a tiger's armpit and had no sense of time.
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