mustiness
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It smelled — or did it taste? — like a deep, woody mustiness, a kind of fragranced shade, the tantalizing cool of a covered bazaar.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
Instead of damp mustiness, it smells of, well, tourists.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2016
A distinct air of mustiness clings to this work, in which long-winded, sometimes bantering dialogue works methodically toward a heartstring-yanking ending.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2015
The chemical compound is caused by a natural fungus in cork that takes only the smallest trace to impart an overpowering mustiness in wines, likened to everything from a wet pooch to sweaty gym socks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2014
The smell was still there al though now it was more of mold and mustiness.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing mustiness
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