musty
adjective
having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
mustiest
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superlativeof musty.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
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 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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 Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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
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 Norman Douglas
