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As a result, he set entire novels in cafés and bars, in fuggy interiors populated by secretive regulars, where the detective is an intruder.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

Unusually exact but unfussy for a musical design, it's fuggy but spacious, with wood-covered walls hung with rows of black-and-white photographs.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013

It's also one with a fuggy ambience that reeks of Britain in the 70s.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2011

A celestial "aaaaaah" accompanies the buttery-yellow sun as it peeks out from its hiding place behind the fuggy clouds, allowing the groundstaff to start peeling the covers off.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2011

Think of that light so white and soft on the old gardens of Chilton Park.—“Don’t let’s go in to a fuggy building,” she said.

From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo