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Fusty

adjective
(compar. fustier; superl. fustiest)
1.
Stale and unclean smelling.  Synonyms: frowsty, musty.
2.
Old-fashioned and out of date.  Synonyms: nonprogressive, standpat, unprogressive.






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"Fusty" Quotes from Famous Books



... in her record," said Barnett, frowning at the fusty schooner astern. "Otherwise the name ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... off, David?' said Ancrum, rousing himself from what seemed a melancholy brooding over books that he was in truth not reading. As David shook hands with him, the small fusty room, the pale face and crippled form awoke in the lad a sense of indescribable dreariness. In a flash of recoil and desire his thought sprang to the journey of the next day—to the May ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... slave, if a be here. Why, here's no body. All this goes well yet: but if the old trot should come for her pot—aye, marry, there's the matter, but I care not; I'll face her out, and call her old rusty, dusty, musty, fusty, crusty firebrand, and worse than all that, and so face her out of her pot: but soft, here ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]



Words linked to "Fusty" :   ill-smelling, malodorous, unprogressive, malodourous, nonprogressive, conservative, stinky, standpat, unpleasant-smelling, musty



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