fusty

Example Sentences

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With his deadpan solemnity, stars-and-stripes stage sets and fusty bow ties, Mr. Russell looked more like a senator than a comic.

From New York Times

These days, however, a fresh breeze is billowing through golf’s fusty clubhouse.

From New York Times

That linguistic shift had political dimensions, too, as Cosimo championed Italian within the larger and relatively fusty framework of Latin as a Pan-European language with an ancient pedigree.

From Washington Post

“Within our region tensions are rising because some external countries are bent on playing fusty geopolitical games,” the Chinese embassy said on Twitter.

From Reuters

But it’s not clear whether the campaign will be enough to shift the popular perception of the party as a club of fusty, old-school elites.

From New York Times