How To Use Fusty In A Sentence
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It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class.
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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.
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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.
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Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers.
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Silk flowers have shed their fusty image and are enjoying a renaissance.
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But that fusty image hides a formidable enterprise.
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class.
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Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
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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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It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution.
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I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering.
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Their worships, as he called them, were about a score of fusty crack-ropes and gallow-clappers, or rather more, all posted before a bar, and staring at each other like so many dead pigs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The website is still being carried along by the fusty old world of print.
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These are spaces in which the spider feels at home: dusty and old fashioned, fusty and dimly lit.
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I was fed with a very full and appetising meal, which was fortunately not too rich for my weakened state, my body was cleaned and my filthy, fusty clothes were replaced by crisp clean laundry-smelling ones.
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In it, he said that the sight of the marchers being welcomed into ‘the fusty belch-filled dining rooms’ of exclusive London clubs was a reminder of reasons for voting Labour.
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They shed their fusty image; bands get a quirky story.
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I want them musty, fusty and downright dirty.
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The website is still being carried along by the fusty old world of print.
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I want them musty, fusty and downright dirty.
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It feels fun, rather than fusty.
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What's more, carpet has shed its fusty image.
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It affected families too: I had one grandfather at Pearl for the duration as a radio operator while my paternal grandfather, an engineer, no sooner had a rare beer on V-E Day (he was a fusty old lower-middle-class Southern Baptist bigot, a charming grandfather and good with kids, but those other things too in a run of trumps) than he got to spend an extra year in the service rebuilding infrastructure in the Philippines.
Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
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Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard.
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As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people.
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I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered.
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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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.
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He had expected her to smell fusty, like Caramel, but her breath was no more sour than any human's.
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The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
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There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand.
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Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers.
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Some senior judges think that wigs confirm their fusty image.
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The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
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So much for the fusty old image of the life insurance business.
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I passed up a side-street, one of those deserted ways ... dim places, fusty with hesternal excitements and the thrills of yesteryear.
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The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell.
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Once it may have had a fusty image.
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Some senior judges think that wigs confirm their fusty image.
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A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous.
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The dog stunk from across the room, fusty, like an old armchair left on the porch, and Ruth figured the dog hadn't passed gas before in the car; she'd simply smell like this forever.
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Against this fusty backdrop, the 'attractive, articulate and ingratiating' up-and-comer found instant favour.
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It's become a kind of fusty shtick it conjures up the voices of Carl Kasell and Charles Osgood.
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There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists.
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Its stunning collection aside, this is a very fusty place indeed.
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The New York Post: Madonna has always had a hard time making it past co-op boards, with the notoriously fusty upper crusties feeling that too much publicity was a bad thing for their otherwise anonymous buildings.
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The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits.
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But that fusty image hides a formidable enterprise.
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So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.
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It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution.
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The website is still being carried along by the fusty old world of print.
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It feels fun, rather than fusty.
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These are spaces in which the spider feels at home: dusty and old fashioned, fusty and dimly lit.
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They spoke only in whispers, and I saw them all as agelessly fusty.
Roger Fransecky: What Will You Remember?
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But that fusty image hides a formidable enterprise.
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I want them musty, fusty and downright dirty.
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So much for the fusty old image of the life insurance business.
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These are spaces in which the spider feels at home: dusty and old fashioned, fusty and dimly lit.
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Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation.
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Weds Letters), I would suggest the expression for responding to a post, when even as you're writing, you suspect they just put it there to provoke the kind of fusty response you're now drafting, but you're just too pedantic to stop yourself commenting, should be known as post-imprissionism.
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This blanket smells a bit fusty.
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It was important to me to demonstrate this, because I anticipated correctly that there'd be a slew of fusty cultural critics -- crushing bores all -- who would clutch their pearls and frantically decry Stewart/Colbert's efforts as "unserious.
'Rally To Restore Sanity' Critics Unite To Offer America Pretentious Whining
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I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering.
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns.
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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Basically, this turns out to be another of the prince's reactionary discourses on why modern life isn't as it should be - which is to say, not to his fusty tastes.
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I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering.
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Silk flowers have shed their fusty image and are enjoying a renaissance.
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Once it may have had a fusty image.
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Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in.
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The stem snapped in half years ago, and its case is worn, but it still exudes a kind of fusty dignity.
The uneasy namesake
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Gone are the ancient vats and fusty old barrels.
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Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun.
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It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use.
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Until recently, books about book dealing and book collecting tended to the agreeably fusty, redolent of shag tobacco and carpet slippers.
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Its stunning collection aside, this is a very fusty place indeed.
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They shed their fusty image; bands get a quirky story.
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Silk flowers have shed their fusty image and are enjoying a renaissance.
Times, Sunday Times
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They shed their fusty image; bands get a quirky story.
Times, Sunday Times
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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This room smells a bit fusty - I think I'll just open a window.
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Many grand houses feel slightly fusty, but this has a lived-in atmosphere.
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Halls said: 'Maybe there are some fusty schools where it is felt the only thing to do is to play the cello not very well.
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However, Evie's mother sounds a little too much like her daughter, and this lack of distinctiveness can be levelled at most of the voices: they share a slightly fusty grandiloquence at times redolent of a 19th-century novel.
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams – review
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Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers.
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Don't be fooled into thinking that Liberty is all about fusty paisley designs: the latest make-up bags look so modern, it is hard to believe that they are made using prints from the archives.
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His fusty works is a kind of rotten beauty, or a kind of beauty of death, but the sticky fur works is a kind of horrific beauty.
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By week four, my handbag was coated in mould - not quite that season's shade - and my clothes had taken on that fusty scent so beloved of 1960s hippies.
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The museum - the family's former residence - is brown, fusty and lifeless.
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After all, she's on the winning team, the team whose players are slowly but surely turning the Top 40 into their personal dominion, banishing adult music fans to the fusty environs of the album chart.
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Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer.
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What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles.
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The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
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Some senior judges think that wigs confirm their fusty image.
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The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff.
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Nor does it give any impression of the sights and sounds of the underground, the warm fusty smell, the rattle of trains and the queues at the ticket machines and the crush at the ticket barriers.
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Though doubtless hallowed ground, the city fathers considered it now, 120 years on, far too valuable to languish as a repository for any fusty detritus the locals cared to throw in.
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The fusty literary empire became impregnable.
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So much for the fusty old image of the life insurance business.
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It feels fun, rather than fusty.
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Once it may have had a fusty image.
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What's more, carpet has shed its fusty image.
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It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s.
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Her fusty specialty in ancient bones is no proper preparation for dealing with colleagues and friends who turn out to be different than she thought and her self acknowledged lack of fitness is a serious handicap in some most unpleasant forays into an inhospitable landscape.
Advance reader reviews of The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths.
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It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class.
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What's more, carpet has shed its fusty image.
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Its stunning collection aside, this is a very fusty place indeed.
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