Thesaurus / musty
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The used-book department in the basement had that musty scent of dust and other people’s houses.
WORLD CLASS: REMEMBERING LEGENDARY TRAVEL WRITER JAN MORRISLIZA WEISSTUCHDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POST
The coronavirus crisis has made things that normally excited college-bound teens, like socializing with peers and gathering in musty classrooms, potential health hazards.
UK UNIVERSITIES PREDICTED A COVID-19 CRASH. THEY GOT THE OPPOSITEFIONA ZUBLINSEPTEMBER 17, 2020OZY
Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Isn't this free-booting spirit, now, better than leading a cowardly life of musty regularity?
THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM;GEORGE COLMAN
Her decisions depended not upon the voice of inspiration but upon the musty parchments of the past.
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARD
The air was heavy and musty and the girls shivered as they tried to walk bravely forward.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANK
It's a musty old tradition, a sort of a remnant of the old days, that present day newsmongers use as a yardstick for comparisons.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
The next day and the next night were stale and mean and musty with a drizzling winter rain.
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Chivey tore open the box, and lifting up some musty old deeds and parchments, he feasted his eyes upon a mine of wealth.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG
WORDS RELATED TO MUSTY
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
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