mustiness
Example Sentences
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Open since 1980, Pioneer Book fills its two-level shop with used, signed and rare books, without a whiff of mustiness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2019
Instead of damp mustiness, it smells of, well, tourists.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2016
Like cranberry, but more nuanced, culinary hibiscus has a fruity-floral brightness and tinge of mustiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
But far underground, the tunnel itself exuded only a faint cavelike mustiness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2011
But there was a dim mustiness about it still where the scent had been.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing mustiness
The River
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