mustiness 的定义
mus·ti·er, mus·ti·est.
- having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
 - obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty laws.
 - dull; apathetic.
 
mustiness 近义词
等同于 mildew
更多mustiness例句
- The musty Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher was in decline, to be replaced the following year by the sterile charm of Tony Blair and his New Labour project.
 - Colman Domingo, the actor and writer, lifts them out of the musty corners of his west Philadelphia childhood in “A Boy and His Soul,” an affectionate and aurally atmospheric one-man memory play.
 - The used-book department in the basement had that musty scent of dust and other people’s houses.
 - The coronavirus crisis has made things that normally excited college-bound teens, like socializing with peers and gathering in musty classrooms, potential health hazards.
 - Today, though, its musty depths speak not to local sustenance but global peril.
 - While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain.
 - Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance.
 - In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library.
 - After five years at Gucci, he got the call to come to Burberry and reinvent the British brand, which had grown musty and stale.
 - But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room.
 - Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
 - It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.
 - Isn't this free-booting spirit, now, better than leading a cowardly life of musty regularity?
 - Her decisions depended not upon the voice of inspiration but upon the musty parchments of the past.
 - The air was heavy and musty and the girls shivered as they tried to walk bravely forward.