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adj. - Old-fashioned and out of date; Stale and unclean smelling.

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  • They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
  • Adjective, : fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. ,They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house
  • It's become a kind of fusty shtick it conjures up the voices of Carl Kasell and Charles Osgood.
  • The stem snapped in half years ago, and its case is worn, but it still exudes a kind of fusty dignity.
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