The coronavirus crisis has made things that normally excited college-bound teens, like socializing with peers and gathering in musty classrooms, potential health hazards.
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While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain.
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Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance.
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In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library.
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But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room.
Dinosaurs Had a Lot of Flatulence, But Did Not Gas Themselves to Extinction|Daniel Stone|May 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
His apartment does have the musty aroma of a used-books store.
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Dead, even in name, many of them, or else safely embalmed in the musty pages of some old history seldom read.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2|Ida May Hill Starr
And if you never clean your furniture properly, how can your rooms or wards be anything but musty?
Notes on Nursing|Florence Nightingale
By the 17th of August, the rations were reduced to musty flour enough for ten days, a few dried apples, and plenty of coffee.
The Romance of the Colorado River|Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Their odor is peculiar—not fecal, but musty and offensive, and occasionally almost odorless.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various
There is a musty tradition of the law that a trial without cross-examination is not a proper trial.
The Man in Court|Frederic DeWitt Wells
British Dictionary definitions for musty
musty
/ (ˈmʌstɪ) /
adjective-tieror-tiest
smelling or tasting old, stale, or mouldy
old-fashioned, dull, or hackneyedmusty ideas
Derived forms of musty
mustily, adverbmustiness, noun
Word Origin for musty
C16: perhaps a variant of obsolete moisty, influenced by must ³