fusty
Example Sentences
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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.
Even in fusty old New England, this sounds like not the kind of thing that would generate much outrage.
Recounting an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill, Gluesenkamp Perez describes looking over the witnesses with their fusty manner and fancy pedigrees and wondering if any had ever turned a wrench.
From Los Angeles Times
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