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New research now shows that the distinctive musty scent of mummified remains holds valuable clues about how these elaborate burial rituals were carried out.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

This latest creation is a dud, a banal sitcom figure surrounded by wacky characters who can’t wring any laughs out of Mr. Brooks’s musty script.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

It was musty and slightly astringent, not unlike the communal bin area in his block of flats.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

The sharp tang of the tar and the musty, earthy smell of the observation pits meant a day of play and exploration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

Mama had also told her that it would probably become her job to heat the bathwater, the same water night after night until it got too musty to use anymore.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Led by Susan Angelo, Jan Wikstrom and Ellen Geer, this ensemble, under the direction of Willow Geer, diverts and distracts from the mustier aspects of Coward’s style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The language is honed and specific, effortless yet charged with feeling, where Thomson-DeVeaux’s version can feel mustier and blurry.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020

Japanese haunts are also darker, mustier, and tarnished—perhaps more creepy than gory.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2015

The inexpensive pulp paper plus the ink and glue in the binding gave the giant tomes a much mustier, paper-y odor than a standard paperback novel.

From Time ● Apr. 27, 2015

Then I followed behind her at a very creaky pace until we were in her parlor, the door of which was even older and mustier than she was.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

Even the mustiest old chocolate Santa Claus wasn’t safe from him.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

You cannot know “all about the war and what they fought each other for” without delving very deep indeed into the mustiest by-ways of municipal history.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service specialist, the mustiest of bookworms and a highly-trained expert in the science and language of the American advertising business.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

Accept, then, this book, which to those who care only for history will seem but an idle romance, while to the lovers of romance it may look strangely like the mustiest history.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice