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discoloration caused by fungus; to affect or become affected with mildew

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Usage examples (38)
  • The book was a kind of mildewy cave of rhetoric that, not unlike Brian Clough himself, could have happily contained your wine collection.
  • Launder shower curtain and replace liner if mildewy.
  • Now they're soggy piles of mildewy 20 year-old paper.
  • How do you keep the books from getting wet and mildewy?
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