— fustily , adv. — fustiness , n.
/fus"tee/ , adj., fustier, fustiest .
1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
[ 1350-1400; ME fusti, equiv. to fust (n.) fustis stick, pole) + -Y 1 ]
Syn. 1. close, stuffy, oppressive; smelly, malodorous.