fusty

Example Sentences

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With his deadpan solemnity, stars-and-stripes stage sets and fusty bow ties, Mr. Russell looked more like a senator than a comic.

From New York Times

In Oklahoma, a single-mom schoolteacher joins a strike, while a socialist legislator treads a lonely path in Virginia’s fusty State Assembly, where lobbyists close ranks with well-off politicians.

From New York Times

These days, however, a fresh breeze is billowing through golf’s fusty clubhouse.

From New York Times

That linguistic shift had political dimensions, too, as Cosimo championed Italian within the larger and relatively fusty framework of Latin as a Pan-European language with an ancient pedigree.

From Washington Post

I had always thought of jazz as something fusty and sort of conservative — it’s always been a closed door to me.

From New York Times