adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.
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Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks.
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So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.
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Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.
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The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty , faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.
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The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty , like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator.
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There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.