musty

Its most famous patron, Ernest Hemingway, sits in statue form alone at the bar in the musty, sweltering darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

O’Neal hired a company that developed scents for Las Vegas casinos in an effort to eliminate the musty aroma that often plagues secondhand stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

The intricate ensemble, weighing in at less than 4 pounds, somehow survived the Spanish conquest, a perilous ocean crossing and two centuries of musty anonymity in a Tirolean castle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025

The room they entered was big, square, well lit, and had a faint musty smell.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

Members consider it a scruffier, more bohemian version of mustier clubs uptown.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016

That will resonate for most, though, as a description better suited to status updates and Gchat windows than to that other, mustier form of writing: carefully composed prose.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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

The house was pitch-black and mustier than Trotter’s.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

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 Norman Douglas

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 Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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 Maurice Thompson