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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfustyfus‧ty /ˈfʌsti/ adjective 1 AIRif rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been used for a long time SYN musty2 informalOLD-FASHIONED ideas or people that are fusty are old-fashioned fusty old academics —fustiness noun [uncountable]
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fusty• Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks.• A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models.• Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.• The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.• The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty, like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator.• So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.• There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.• All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.
Origin fusty (1400-1500) fust “wooden wine container” ((15-16 centuries)), from Old French, from Latin fustis; → FUSTIAN
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