musty
adjective
having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
mustiness
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a word derived from
musty.
Example Sentences
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I don’t have much time for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
There's another factor working in Steely Dan's favor to wipe out any would-be mustiness here, and that's the fact that almost none of the material from the band's 1972-80 life span sounds dated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2017
By which he means that outside theater circles, a mustiness had crept into the show business zeitgeist, a sense of the musical becoming uncool, out of step.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Yech,” posted another, Julie M., who used a chamber in New York and wrote that she “couldn’t stand the mustiness after about 15 min so left early.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2015
Inside, the smell of mustiness coated everything like a thick layer of bad cologne.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
