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Meanings of fusty in английском

Stale and unclean smelling.

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Old-fashioned and out of date.

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Usage of fusty in английском
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Here was a feisty young talent taking on an out-of-touch, fusty establishment.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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Pelham, please, do try not to be such a fusty old nanny.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
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A fusty old cab, a four-wheeler, a growler, don't you call them?
We Two: A Novel
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Stereotype says they're fusty, but the reality is absolutely the opposite.
Wired
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We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
The Guardian
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Get over it. Just show us the golf, you fusty shower of cranks.
The Irish Times
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The fusty familiarity of an old-fashioned woollen blanket, pulled up over his face.
Another life
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He should have preached on the fusty roads... View Article
The new yorker
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The royal family and the fusty establishment, very much out.
News.com.au
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Our house was too small and I was getting to look fusty and frowsy.
The Opinions of a Philosopher
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Once again he delved deeply into fusty Monster files and found a startling clue.
The monster of florence
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I wouldn't mind if I blew a cloud, as well as you, old fusty-musty.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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The sack smelled old and fusty but it somehow helped my breathing to steady.
Act of will
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A fusty, musty smell was in the room, in the air of the staircase, everywhere.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
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But a band of up-and-coming performers will partly compensate and help banish Venice's fusty image.
Reuters
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They only hold dust and make the room fusty.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
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