mustiness
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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
Instead of damp mustiness, it smells of, well, tourists.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2016
Yech,” posted another, Julie M., who used a chamber in New York and wrote that she “couldn’t stand the mustiness after about 15 min so left early.”
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2015
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
The tang of pines, soft air, some mustiness from rotting vegetation.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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