mustiest
- superlative of musty.
Example Sentences
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Even the mustiest old chocolate Santa Claus wasn’t safe from him.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
I'm afraid I must own, that I think your opinions are the oldest and mustiest I have met with this long time.'
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service specialist, the mustiest of bookworms and a highly-trained expert in the science and language of the American advertising business.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various
You cannot know “all about the war and what they fought each other for” without delving very deep indeed into the mustiest by-ways of municipal history.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
