moldy
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To be clear: These athletes aren’t chowing on the yucky old sports gels we all know and hate, the ones that taste like tangerines and moldy baseball gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Cigarette butts litter the floor, moldy food is left to decay on greasy dishes and the ceiling is stained with candle soot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
County’s jails, describing filthy conditions, vermin and insect infestations, a lack of clean water and moldy and spoiled food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
“Nobody deserves dirty showers, nobody deserves moldy food.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
She stood watching him as he finished lighting the candle stubs that stood on saucers around the room, perched precariously on stacks of books and on side tables crammed with cracked and moldy cups.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The derring-do is so entertaining, the moldier gags and soppy ending are forgivable.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2013
The straw they had given him seemed even moldier than the pile on which Meggie had slept, but the boy looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes since Flatnose had locked him in anyway.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
I’ve heard him say, to one of the hovering women who was making feeble attempts to corral some of the moldier clutter.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
In fact everything looked, as Erica expressed it, "moldier!"
From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna
The scripts overhaul the moldiest genre tropes -- interstellar invasions, time travel loops, dimension-hopping inventions -- and infuse them with such warmth and silliness that they seem fresh again.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2011
Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Puffing Bird Sir: Avant garde bopper Parker, as any but the moldiest fig knows, earned his frenetic niche in bopdom by his puffing on the alto sax.
From Time Magazine Archive
The simplest, tiredest, moldiest old racket that ever made a quick nickel.
From Letter of the Law by Nourse, Alan Edward
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