fusty
Example Sentences
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I hadn’t expected him to be so fusty.
From Literature
Venezi’s supporters say the 35-year-old, who once appeared in Italian shampoo commercials, has the potential to open up the fusty world of opera to a whole new audience.
Pilates, which combines stretching and body weight conditioning exercises, has, for some, a fusty image - a gentle and genteel workout for those of advancing years.
From BBC
The policing techniques satirized in the film may be futuristic, but its structure is fusty.
But behind the powdered-wig posturing and fusty adherence to tradition lies his radical idea: Progress is impossible without a past.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
