fusty
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Widow’s Bay is indeed a fusty place where everyone drives old cars, uses ancient computers and communicates on walkies and landlines since neither cell phones nor Wi-Fi connectivity works.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But classic feels too fusty and self-conscious, even though “Hokum” has all the tropes: looming figures, clanging bells, ominous dumbwaiters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Even in fusty old New England, this sounds like not the kind of thing that would generate much outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
That breach of cricketing etiquette, in an era of fusty formality, was sufficient to slightly irk Bradman as he walked from his crease.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
But the stupid island was where he was going to spend this night, at least, in soiled clothes that were beginning to smell fusty.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
They are pleasurable to behold, in their own way, if a bit fustier than those of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in “Knives Out.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
Hotel developers have started to replace some of the fustier features, such as mini-bars and room service, with more modern ones, such as nightstands with USB ports and lobby lounges.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016
Her main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Savvy viewers, though, will intuit the title’s missing question mark, understanding that Michael Myers, one of cinema’s fustiest boogeymen, is unlikely to remain interred for long.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
It had been a long, sometimes contentious, multi-hurdled journey from chippy kid to all-time champion who radicalized one of the Whitest and fustiest of sports with her presence.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
To Cambridge partisans, Markle was a wrecking ball masquerading as a smiley face emoji, impatient to bend one of history’s fustiest institutions to her iron will.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022
My destination was Black Mountain, the fustiest and most unreconstructed ski area in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
Only the fustiest of traditionalists would grouch at the news that Joseph Papp's musical irregulars from the New York Shakespeare Festival have decided to give Boheme an airing out.
From Time Magazine Archive
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