musty
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Between the musty setup and saccharine score, it’s the film equivalent of a bowl of stale candies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
New research now shows that the distinctive musty scent of mummified remains holds valuable clues about how these elaborate burial rituals were carried out.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
They did not look quaint or musty but decidedly contemporary, even stylish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
It was musty and slightly astringent, not unlike the communal bin area in his block of flats.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
O dark, musty platoon huts, with the iron bedsteads, the chequered bedding, the lockers and the stools!
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The language is honed and specific, effortless yet charged with feeling, where Thomson-DeVeaux’s version can feel mustier and blurry.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Members consider it a scruffier, more bohemian version of mustier clubs uptown.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016
That will resonate for most, though, as a description better suited to status updates and Gchat windows than to that other, mustier form of writing: carefully composed prose.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2015
The inexpensive pulp paper plus the ink and glue in the binding gave the giant tomes a much mustier, paper-y odor than a standard paperback novel.
From Time ● Apr. 27, 2015
The house was pitch-black and mustier than Trotter’s.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Even the mustiest old chocolate Santa Claus wasn’t safe from him.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service specialist, the mustiest of bookworms and a highly-trained expert in the science and language of the American advertising business.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various
You cannot know “all about the war and what they fought each other for” without delving very deep indeed into the mustiest by-ways of municipal history.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
I'm afraid I must own, that I think your opinions are the oldest and mustiest I have met with this long time.'
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
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