musty 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- obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty laws.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.
musty 近义词
stuffy, aged
worn-out, clichéd
更多musty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.