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Adjective, : fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. ,They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house. From Dictionary.com.
It's become a kind of fusty shtick it conjures up the voices of Carl Kasell and Charles Osgood. From Wordnik.com. [Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time] Reference
The stem snapped in half years ago, and its case is worn, but it still exudes a kind of fusty dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The uneasy namesake] Reference
Even fusty old GM is doing some interior decorating. From Wordnik.com. [A Dash Of Style] Reference
The fusty atmosphere of a room that is never lived in. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
Frowsy and foul its fittings be, its atmosphere is fusty. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
In menswear, the fusty sweater gets a makeover this season. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Fashion Preview] Reference
We couldn't bear to wait until the shots would appear in fusty old print. From Wordnik.com. [Zarqawi vs. the Brangelina Baby] Reference
There was a fusty little tavern down the street, full of laughing soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
A fusty, musty smell was in the room, in the air of the staircase, everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
McCain is a fusty old fart who's attacks have about as much bite as tapioca pudding. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Camp: Obama "Bizarrely In Sync With Moscow"] Reference
Before her were the old remembered book-cases, filled with dark, rather fusty books. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
No longer would students probe fusty tomes to learn about the Victorians or World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: Power to the People] Reference
And the stuffy, fusty railway carriage had not in the least diminished the joy of the telling. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Welcome to the new world order where isolationism is as fusty a notion as fairness and balance. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: GOP Pisses Off World; Wins Prize!] Reference
'Welcome to the new world order where isolationism is as fusty a notion as fairness and balance. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: GOP Pisses Off World; Wins Prize!] Reference
Doremy Vernon, in her book The Tiller Girls, describes how fusty the club had become. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
It was a fusty-smelling, cluttered room, furnished with odds and ends of old furniture and hangings. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Somehow, those muddied, fusty old logos escape the shadow of the company's monolithic corporate reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew J. Nusca: Vintage Brown Starbucks Cups, I Wish I Could Quit You] Reference
'No, I shouldn't say it was at all damp; of course rooms that have been shut up always seem fusty and close. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Cynthia Carroll, looked inward, focusing her efforts on an internal overhaul of the giant but fusty mining group. From Wordnik.com. [The 50 Women to Watch 2008] Reference
The props supporting the roof were fusty with mildew and fungus, but the entrance faced away from the German guns. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
The language is fusty, but the advice is sound, and makes one wish somebody could lay a modern tongue to it, on MTV. From Wordnik.com. [David Murray: Vital Speeches, Back in the Day] Reference
The new princess brought the fusty House of Windsor fresh attention and adulation, which in turn magnified the family's flaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Selling Of The Royals] Reference
Urban and modern, it is a strange if entirely welcome choice for ABT, often criticized for its focus on fusty period fairy tales. From Wordnik.com. [Everything Is Happening for Millepied] Reference
One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. From Wordnik.com. [How Videogames Blind Us With Science] Reference
In the 1980s, A&E was frequently referred to within the industry as "BBC West," a fusty home for period pieces and costume dramas. From Wordnik.com. [Yum Pulls Ads From Bounty-Hunter Show] Reference
The prize, one of the world's most prestigious for literary fiction, has always had a reputation for honoring fusty, turgid tomes. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes On The Prize] Reference
Most of the story swings on gallows humor aimed at anyone fusty enough to still be reading novels -- or, worse, reviews of novels. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story," reviewed by Ron Charles] Reference
He growled a little at me and demanded, "Prithee, how comes it your peewit-brain bears such a ballast of fusty book-knowledge, chit?". From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
There were odd smells about; stale fish and brick-fields seemed to combine, and that strange fusty odour which infects very old clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
I suspect that my father's habit of DIY repairs constitutes a waning skill, a practice that now seems quaint and fusty, if not eccentric. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Drane: "There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in"] Reference
As Fox and Alleyn left the flat in Cheyne Walk they encountered in the downstairs entrance a little old man in a fusty overcoat and decrepit bowler. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Baroque artists strived mightily to find something new to do with the fusty, centuries-old medium of oil painting, and presto: They invented chiaroscuro. From Wordnik.com. [The Game of Art] Reference
It probably won't interest American readers, but to Europeans and Canadians the debate over health care in this country has a stale, fusty, worn and worn-out feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Bye Bye Public Option] Reference
Poor dear Wagner, how well one seems to know thee, with thy purblind spectacled eyes peering into fusty books and parchments, or bending over thy crucibles and retorts!. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
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