mustiness
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I don’t have much time for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
By which he means that outside theater circles, a mustiness had crept into the show business zeitgeist, a sense of the musical becoming uncool, out of step.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
The chemical compound is caused by a natural fungus in cork that takes only the smallest trace to impart an overpowering mustiness in wines, likened to everything from a wet pooch to sweaty gym socks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2014
Floors are uneven, ceilings are low, and there is plenty of mustiness, but in the warrens it’s possible to find a treasure.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2014
There was nobody in it; it smelled of old stone, old neglect, mustiness.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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