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Musty   /mˈəsti/   Listen
adjective
Musty  adj.  (compar. mustier; superl. mustiest)  
1.
Having the rank, pungent, offensive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
2.
Spoiled by age; rank; stale. "The proverb is somewhat musty."
3.
Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation."





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"Musty" Quotes from Famous Books



... general tactics have historical interest and importance because, according to Spenser Wilkinson, they show where some of Napoleon's strategic "miracles" were born. Bourcet's observations are as vital as if they had been written in 1910, but, as will be seen, many of them are somewhat musty ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various
... and thorough system of cleansing and cleaning throughout the house, that had been very welcome to the soul of Mrs. Eccles; but into the library they had not penetrated. The old bookshelves remained untouched; the old books, in their musty brown calf bindings, were undesecrated by profaning hands. All sorts of quaint chairs and bureaus, gathered together out of every other room in the house, had congregated here. The space over the mantelpiece was adorned by a splendid ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... smile of fields, and the blur of swift-gliding hedges, and the driving perfume of clover-laden winds that passed strong into spread nostrils. For Alan Porter, the son, there were columns of figures and musty-smelling bundles of tattered paper money where he clerked in the bank. There had been great unison in the Porter household over the placing of Alan. In addition to horse lore, John Porter was a fair judge of human nature, and, beyond ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... her down a short stair into a narrow passage, nowhere lighted from the outside. The door went to behind them, as if some one had banged it in anger at their intrusion. The passage smelt very musty, and was ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... waiting for sometime in a musty drawing-room where cobwebs lurked in corners and everything looked the worse for time, she appeared in fearful and wonderful array,—layers of powder concealing the dusky tint of her complexion, innumerable jewels tinkling on her person, and hands ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi


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