[ US /ˈfəsˌti/ ]
[ UK /fˈʌsti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stale and unclean smelling
  2. old-fashioned and out of date
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How To Use fusty In A Sentence

  • It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her.
  • It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
  • Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Silk flowers have shed their fusty image and are enjoying a renaissance. Times, Sunday Times
  • But that fusty image hides a formidable enterprise. Times, Sunday Times
  • This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
  • It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
  • Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club?
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