Adjective, : fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. ,They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house. From Dictionary.com.
The very word "desk" has taken on an almost Dickensian fustiness. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Shaking his head to clear the fustiness he noticed a fat arm around his waist. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Lady]
In fact, one of the refreshing things about this CD is the complete lack of classical or "early music" fustiness. From Wordnik.com. [Songs From The Labyrinth] Reference
There's a fustiness about Mr. Beatty's uncharacteristically lackluster stage set, which he locates sort of in the 17th century. From Wordnik.com. [A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?] Reference
He was in bed when Morgan left the hotel on his early round, and there was a look about him still of fustiness and the cobwebs of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The Standard-BearersHere are some of the prophets and pathfinders who helped clear away the last of the old formality, fustiness and frou-frou. From Wordnik.com. [Design Literacy: A Primer] Reference
The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review] Reference
Before you go the fusuma are slidden back, and what was your room becomes part of a great, open, matted space — an arrangement which effectually prevents fustiness. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Olympic fashion: Curling's chic new uniforms sweep fustiness aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Olympic fashion: Curling's chic new uniforms sweep fustiness aside Disclaimer. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
We could not have hit upon a greater contrast to the noise and fustiness of the town. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
The cul de sac itself reeked of dirt and fustiness, as if it had not been cleaned or ventilated for years. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
Though wrapped in glowing jacket endorsements from several eminent professors, it is free of the ritualized fustiness of academic writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
We heaved up the lower sash -- the effort it cost went some way to explaining the fustiness of the room -- and Hartnoll tossed out the beer. From Wordnik.com. [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference
Yet part of the appeal is the fustiness of the dialogue and telling - which presumably they weren't when it was published half a century ago. From Wordnik.com. [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference
On the other hand, the fustiness that has contributed to its losing the prime-time war, and thereby, in the minds of the diaspora, ceding broadcast journalism to. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
"Neither you are -- but everything in this house smells of coal-smoke and cabbage-water and general fustiness, and you're a nice change, that's all," said Cecilia. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Billabong] Reference
But if I can't endure 30 seconds of Roday's "look at me being wacky!" mugging - and Hill's wide-eyed fustiness - there's no way I'm subjecting myself to a full hour. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Emma Thompson, who also wrote the film, as she did 2005's "Nanny McPhee," once again radiates magisterial fustiness as the no-nonsense nanny who doesn't suffer fools at all. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
With traditional notions of rock rebellion so tainted by association, it's actually more transgressive to sing about the perceived fustiness of willow warblers and waxwings. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The narrowness and fustiness of the Rue aux Fevres certainly hinder you from spending much time in examining the houses but there are two which deserve a few minutes 'individual attention. From Wordnik.com. [Normandy, Illustrated, Complete] Reference
It rivals the glare of gas and the glow of a furnace; it charms away the mustiness and fustiness of years, and causes all that is dull and dead around to laugh and dance in its bright light. From Wordnik.com. [A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales] Reference
This year the producers and the telecast's network, ABC, are aiming to increase viewership among younger people, with younger, weirder hosts (James Franco and Anne Hathaway), hipper singers (Florence of Florence and the Machine) and a promotional campaign aimed at breaking down the event's perceived fustiness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Sunshine through a landing window illumined the dust floating thickly about the staircase and heated the familiar blend of lodging-house smells -- the closeness of small rooms that are never cleansed, the dry rot of wall-paper, plaster, and old wood, the fustiness of clogged carpets trodden thin, the ever-rising vapours from a sluttish kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [The Town Traveller] Reference
For one thing there is Paterson’s brilliant essay on the Main Stream (one of these days soon I need to do a “Don Paterson is brilliant” post), but then so many of the poems are terrific – often with formal flare and vernacular verve, with none of the fustiness that seems to have attached itself to much of American new formalism, and eschewing likewise a glib obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [No Contest : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Gone is the fustiness of the old Lespinasse. From Wordnik.com. [Ducasse Redux: The Master Regroups at the St. Regis, No Tux Required] Reference
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