musty
adjective
having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
mustily
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a word derived from
musty.
Example Sentences
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The director Jeremy Sams also provided leaden, relentlessly rhyming English-language lyrics; the jokes jammed into the playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s new dialogue are mustily groan-worthy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2014
Noonday sun sifted mustily down through the Capitol's frosted-glass skylights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elaborately researched, mustily told account of an involved cause celebre, now forgotten.
From Time Magazine Archive
It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held on to too many small, low-profit central city stores that seemed mustily Dickensian compared with the competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was neither a "drum-and-trumpet history" designed to tickle the vulgar ear, nor a blank four-wall depository of dry facts, names, dates, statistics, such as pedants mustily adore; but a living thing, seen and felt.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
