FUSTY

[adjective] -ier, -iest [disapproving] - smelling unpleasantly damp and not fresh, or (figurative) old fashioned in ideas and beliefsThis room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.I don't think he lets his clothes dry properly before he puts them away - somehow they always smell fusty.(figurative) As a child I used to have to go and stay with this fusty old aunt of mine who believed that children should be seen and not heard.(figurative) Rupert's father belongs to some fusty old gentleman's club in London where they don't allow women in.