Synonyms for fusty

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fuhs-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfʌs ti

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Définition of fusty

Origin : "stale-smelling," late 14c., from Old French fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from Old French fuist "wine cask," originally "stick, stave," from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood." Related: Fustiness.

adj moldy
adj old-fashioned

Example sentences :

As I love the facts of life more, I care less for fusty commentators.
Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

It seems so funny not to go to it, instead of moping in these fusty lodgings.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

Fusty, earlier foisty, is no longer used in its proper sense.
Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley

You would have us go and live in that damp, musty, fusty place?
Extract from : « Not Like Other Girls » by Rosa N. Carey

The cab is fusty, the driver is sulky, the morning is foggy.
Extract from : « My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Wilkie Collins

In the damp climate of western Carolina such an interior is fusty, or even wet.
Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart

You're not selfish and you're not fusty; but you remind me of him when you make remarks like your first.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers and Other Stories » by Robert Grant

But the devil's a great deal too good for 'em—fusty villains.Ch.
Extract from : « Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) » by Francis Beaumont

A fusty, musty smell was in the room, in the air of the staircase, everywhere.
Extract from : « Madame Flirt » by Charles E. Pearce

The vessel was laden with rice, and the fusty heat which came up from below was something awful.
Extract from : « A Boy's Voyage Round the World » by The Son of Samuel Smiles

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