stale
adjective
not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
stalest
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superlativeof stale.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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The stalest reality show becomes, in her telling, a Talmudic feat: “There is a tribunal of scholars who teaches them how to sing!” she tells Shulem breathlessly.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 14, 2019
It opens with a fresh angle on one of the stalest scenes in music history, when Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Luckily, so expert is Firth’s timing—like that of Emma Thompson, as Bridget’s obstetrician—that laughs, often of the rueful variety, can be conjured in the stalest scenes.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2016
When you compete in a multiplayer shooter and you are at a disadvantage until you unlock better weapons; that's the stalest of crust.
From The Verge ● Oct. 28, 2015
For many years it was customary to bring to the church on Whitsunday afternoon baskets of the stalest bread and hardest cheese, cut up into small pieces the size of dice.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland
