musty

Its most famous patron, Ernest Hemingway, sits in statue form alone at the bar in the musty, sweltering darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

“What are you doing in this musty old room, anyway?” he asked in his croak of a voice, walking over to where Klaus was sitting.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Led by Susan Angelo, Jan Wikstrom and Ellen Geer, this ensemble, under the direction of Willow Geer, diverts and distracts from the mustier aspects of Coward’s style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

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

Then I followed behind her at a very creaky pace until we were in her parlor, the door of which was even older and mustier than she was.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

Even the mustiest old chocolate Santa Claus wasn’t safe from him.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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 Norman Douglas

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 Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell