Definition of fusty in English:

fusty

adjectivefustiest, fustier ˈfʌstiˈfəsti

1Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.
the fusty odour of decay
Example sentencesExamples
- The museum - the family's former residence - is brown, fusty and lifeless.
- Gone are the ancient vats and fusty old barrels.
- As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people.
- Nor does it give any impression of the sights and sounds of the underground, the warm fusty smell, the rattle of trains and the queues at the ticket machines and the crush at the ticket barriers.
- Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation.
- I was fed with a very full and appetising meal, which was fortunately not too rich for my weakened state, my body was cleaned and my filthy, fusty clothes were replaced by crisp clean laundry-smelling ones.
- The dog stunk from across the room, fusty, like an old armchair left on the porch, and Ruth figured the dog hadn't passed gas before in the car; she'd simply smell like this forever.
- The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell.
- Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer.
- He had expected her to smell fusty, like Caramel, but her breath was no more sour than any human's.
- By week four, my handbag was coated in mould - not quite that season's shade - and my clothes had taken on that fusty scent so beloved of 1960s hippies.
- It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use.
- The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff.
- I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering.
Synonyms
stuffy, musty, stale, stagnant, airless, unventilated, close, suffocating, oppressive, mouldering
damp, mildewed, mildewy
British frowsty
1. 1.1 Old-fashioned in attitude or style.
  grammar in the classroom became a fusty notion
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, she's on the winning team, the team whose players are slowly but surely turning the Top 40 into their personal dominion, banishing adult music fans to the fusty environs of the album chart.
  In it, he said that the sight of the marchers being welcomed into ‘the fusty belch-filled dining rooms’ of exclusive London clubs was a reminder of reasons for voting Labour.
  There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists.
  Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in.
  A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous.
  Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard.
  Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun.
  The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits.
  Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club?
  It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution.
  It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
  Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
  The fusty literary empire became impregnable.
  She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns.
  What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles.
  Basically, this turns out to be another of the prince's reactionary discourses on why modern life isn't as it should be - which is to say, not to his fusty tastes.
  There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand.
  The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her.
  It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s.
  I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered.
  Synonyms
  old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, behind the times, antediluvian, backward-looking, past it
  crusty, fogeyish
  informal square, out of the ark, creaky, mouldy

Derivatives

fustily

adverb

Most businesses in that situation would have tried desperately (and fustily) to adapt the existing equipment to the new requirements and eventually destroy themselves trying to pound a square equipment peg into a proverbial round hole of need.
Example sentencesExamples
- Granted, since most modern readers live lives thankfully remote from the class-consciousness of an aristocracy, it is hard to come up with a courtly idiom that is both plausible and comprehensible without sounding fustily British.
- Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets.
- Though the meat was fabric-thin and tender, orange peel dominated the sauce like an overzealous church matron, fustily perfumed and bitter.
- In the project to reclaim folk music, how was the listener to hear the personal behind the fustily archetypal?

fustiness

nounˈfʌstɪnəsˈfəstinəs

The advent of television news, changing public tolerance for violence, and the increasing fustiness of newspaper owners were already conspiring to make this sort of rough-and-ready tabloid fare a thing of the past.
Example sentencesExamples
- The fustiness of the Victorian era had been replaced by an unfamiliar severity.
- In one of his occasional rants he contrasts pop's regenerative qualities with the fustiness of high culture.
- And when you are entering your teens, making all that fuss about the adolescent equivalent of martini smacks of premature fustiness.
- So she came of age in Victorian England, which is where people probably get the idea of her fustiness.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French fuste 'smelling of the cask', from fust 'cask, tree trunk', from Latin fustis 'cudgel'.

Rhymes

bustee, busty, crusty, dusty, gusty, lusty, musty, rusty, trusty

Definition of fusty in US English:

fusty

adjectiveˈfəstiˈfəstē

1Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.
the fusty odor of decay
Example sentencesExamples
- It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use.
- As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people.
- The dog stunk from across the room, fusty, like an old armchair left on the porch, and Ruth figured the dog hadn't passed gas before in the car; she'd simply smell like this forever.
- He had expected her to smell fusty, like Caramel, but her breath was no more sour than any human's.
- I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering.
- Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer.
- By week four, my handbag was coated in mould - not quite that season's shade - and my clothes had taken on that fusty scent so beloved of 1960s hippies.
- Nor does it give any impression of the sights and sounds of the underground, the warm fusty smell, the rattle of trains and the queues at the ticket machines and the crush at the ticket barriers.
- Gone are the ancient vats and fusty old barrels.
- The museum - the family's former residence - is brown, fusty and lifeless.
- Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation.
- The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell.
- I was fed with a very full and appetising meal, which was fortunately not too rich for my weakened state, my body was cleaned and my filthy, fusty clothes were replaced by crisp clean laundry-smelling ones.
- The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff.
Synonyms
stuffy, musty, stale, stagnant, airless, unventilated, close, suffocating, oppressive, mouldering
1. 1.1 Old-fashioned in attitude or style.
  grammar in the classroom became a fusty notion
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, she's on the winning team, the team whose players are slowly but surely turning the Top 40 into their personal dominion, banishing adult music fans to the fusty environs of the album chart.
  The fusty literary empire became impregnable.
  It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s.
  I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered.
  Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club?
  Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
  There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand.
  Basically, this turns out to be another of the prince's reactionary discourses on why modern life isn't as it should be - which is to say, not to his fusty tastes.
  What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles.
  Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in.
  It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution.
  Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun.
  She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns.
  The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits.
  A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous.
  There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists.
  In it, he said that the sight of the marchers being welcomed into ‘the fusty belch-filled dining rooms’ of exclusive London clubs was a reminder of reasons for voting Labour.
  It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead.
  Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard.
  The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her.
  Synonyms
  old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, behind the times, antediluvian, backward-looking, past it

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French fuste ‘smelling of the cask’, from fust ‘cask, tree trunk’, from Latin fustis ‘cudgel’.

单词	fusty
释义	Definition of fusty in English: fusty adjectivefustiest, fustier ˈfʌstiˈfəsti 1Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy. the fusty odour of decay Example sentencesExamples The museum - the family's former residence - is brown, fusty and lifeless. Gone are the ancient vats and fusty old barrels. As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people. Nor does it give any impression of the sights and sounds of the underground, the warm fusty smell, the rattle of trains and the queues at the ticket machines and the crush at the ticket barriers. Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation. I was fed with a very full and appetising meal, which was fortunately not too rich for my weakened state, my body was cleaned and my filthy, fusty clothes were replaced by crisp clean laundry-smelling ones. The dog stunk from across the room, fusty, like an old armchair left on the porch, and Ruth figured the dog hadn't passed gas before in the car; she'd simply smell like this forever. The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell. Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer. He had expected her to smell fusty, like Caramel, but her breath was no more sour than any human's. By week four, my handbag was coated in mould - not quite that season's shade - and my clothes had taken on that fusty scent so beloved of 1960s hippies. It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use. The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff. I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering. Synonyms stuffy, musty, stale, stagnant, airless, unventilated, close, suffocating, oppressive, mouldering damp, mildewed, mildewy British frowsty 1.1 Old-fashioned in attitude or style. grammar in the classroom became a fusty notion Example sentencesExamples After all, she's on the winning team, the team whose players are slowly but surely turning the Top 40 into their personal dominion, banishing adult music fans to the fusty environs of the album chart. In it, he said that the sight of the marchers being welcomed into ‘the fusty belch-filled dining rooms’ of exclusive London clubs was a reminder of reasons for voting Labour. There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists. Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in. A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous. Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard. Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun. The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits. Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club? It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution. It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead. Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100. The fusty literary empire became impregnable. She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns. What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles. Basically, this turns out to be another of the prince's reactionary discourses on why modern life isn't as it should be - which is to say, not to his fusty tastes. There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand. The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her. It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s. I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered. Synonyms old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, behind the times, antediluvian, backward-looking, past it crusty, fogeyish informal square, out of the ark, creaky, mouldy Derivatives fustily adverb Most businesses in that situation would have tried desperately (and fustily) to adapt the existing equipment to the new requirements and eventually destroy themselves trying to pound a square equipment peg into a proverbial round hole of need. Example sentencesExamples Granted, since most modern readers live lives thankfully remote from the class-consciousness of an aristocracy, it is hard to come up with a courtly idiom that is both plausible and comprehensible without sounding fustily British. Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets. Though the meat was fabric-thin and tender, orange peel dominated the sauce like an overzealous church matron, fustily perfumed and bitter. In the project to reclaim folk music, how was the listener to hear the personal behind the fustily archetypal? fustiness nounˈfʌstɪnəsˈfəstinəs The advent of television news, changing public tolerance for violence, and the increasing fustiness of newspaper owners were already conspiring to make this sort of rough-and-ready tabloid fare a thing of the past. Example sentencesExamples The fustiness of the Victorian era had been replaced by an unfamiliar severity. In one of his occasional rants he contrasts pop's regenerative qualities with the fustiness of high culture. And when you are entering your teens, making all that fuss about the adolescent equivalent of martini smacks of premature fustiness. So she came of age in Victorian England, which is where people probably get the idea of her fustiness. Origin Late 15th century: from Old French fuste 'smelling of the cask', from fust 'cask, tree trunk', from Latin fustis 'cudgel'. Rhymes bustee, busty, crusty, dusty, gusty, lusty, musty, rusty, trusty Definition of fusty in US English: fusty adjectiveˈfəstiˈfəstē 1Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy. the fusty odor of decay Example sentencesExamples It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use. As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people. The dog stunk from across the room, fusty, like an old armchair left on the porch, and Ruth figured the dog hadn't passed gas before in the car; she'd simply smell like this forever. He had expected her to smell fusty, like Caramel, but her breath was no more sour than any human's. I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering. Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer. By week four, my handbag was coated in mould - not quite that season's shade - and my clothes had taken on that fusty scent so beloved of 1960s hippies. Nor does it give any impression of the sights and sounds of the underground, the warm fusty smell, the rattle of trains and the queues at the ticket machines and the crush at the ticket barriers. Gone are the ancient vats and fusty old barrels. The museum - the family's former residence - is brown, fusty and lifeless. Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation. The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell. I was fed with a very full and appetising meal, which was fortunately not too rich for my weakened state, my body was cleaned and my filthy, fusty clothes were replaced by crisp clean laundry-smelling ones. The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff. Synonyms stuffy, musty, stale, stagnant, airless, unventilated, close, suffocating, oppressive, mouldering 1.1 Old-fashioned in attitude or style. grammar in the classroom became a fusty notion Example sentencesExamples After all, she's on the winning team, the team whose players are slowly but surely turning the Top 40 into their personal dominion, banishing adult music fans to the fusty environs of the album chart. The fusty literary empire became impregnable. It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s. I'm going to try real, real hard to not be especially cynical - nothing's worse than a fusty, cranky sourpuss who was there when it really mattered. Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club? Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100. There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand. Basically, this turns out to be another of the prince's reactionary discourses on why modern life isn't as it should be - which is to say, not to his fusty tastes. What counts, for him, is the accumulation of power and posing as a ‘moderniser’ by sweeping away fusty medieval titles. Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in. It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution. Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun. She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns. The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits. A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous. There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists. In it, he said that the sight of the marchers being welcomed into ‘the fusty belch-filled dining rooms’ of exclusive London clubs was a reminder of reasons for voting Labour. It suited a society that wanted a select few to pursue the life of the mind, through immersing themselves in such fusty subjects as Classics or philosophy, while everybody else did something less useless instead. Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard. The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her. Synonyms old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, behind the times, antediluvian, backward-looking, past it Origin Late 15th century: from Old French fuste ‘smelling of the cask’, from fust ‘cask, tree trunk’, from Latin fustis ‘cudgel’.
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