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mildewy

adjective as in fusty

adjective as in moldy

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Tina Fey spent the summers of 2002 and 2003 hunched over an old desk in the mildewy back room of a Fire Island rental home.

It’s also time to trash your sponge if it starts to give off a sour, mildewy stench,” advised Phillip Delekta, Ph.D., an instructor in microbiology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, in an interview with The Healthy.

When a flicker of cell service returned on Thursday evening, her brother, Chip Aldridge, 56, recounted how he, his fiancée and dog, Kobi, had walked two miles through the storm and ended up at a La Quinta Inn, where they were now staying because their apartment was a mildewy shambles.

But “What We Do in the Shadows” breathed new life into it in 2019 by, ironically, coating it in dust and spiderwebs; we were told by its vampires of their eternal cool and saw for ourselves how neutered and mildewy the undead actually are.

He acknowledged that he loved the smell of a tennis court, too, though not perhaps at Midtown Tennis, which felt airless and mildewy that morning.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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