Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging.
Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed.
1 The plant thus gives a reversed response under abnormal conditions of staleness .
2 A century old, bare and clean, they had an air of staleness .
3 The result is a preponderance of repetition, with once-fresh ideas driven to staleness .
4 The air was cool after the fetid staleness of that room.
5 The oddest mixture of staleness and of freshness is to be found there.
6 It was infinitely forlorn and empty, with an air of staleness and discomfort.
7 He, too, who had admonished her rather sneeringly for staleness in her information.
8 I ascribe the staleness of American poetry to the griddle-cakes of our Puritan ancestors.
9 Kwel smell of staleness , of sourness, above all of coldness!
10 I begin my excuses by moaning about the staleness , but I can only blame myself.
11 We parted-ofcourse; but not in weariness, not in the grey staleness of fatigue and boredom.
12 Each closed house held its own distinctive staleness .
13 There was a general odor of decaying fruit and fish, a smell of staleness and putridity.
14 The odor was nauseating - the staleness left by a not too clean sleeper who abhors fresh air.
15 The old staleness : hiring an expert to design soundscapes for bars, restaurants, museums, and the like.
16 The musty staleness of the dark corridors faded.
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