fusty

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

Only a fool would want to see the return of that closed, fusty world.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

The beginning of a new era at The Washington Post might be traced to a private conversation between two old friends in January at that fustiest of Washington insider rituals, the annual Alfalfa Club dinner.

From Washington Post

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