as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
couldn't stay too long in the fusty attic without sneezing
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Recent Examples of fusty
The steel frame is easy to wipe down, and the open design keeps it from trapping fusty odors.
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Paradoxically, the most lucrative magazine today is likely the Costco Connection, which emerges monthly from the fusty and secretive Kirkland, WA, marketing empire.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
In keeping with his transformational persona, Barack Obama tried to liven things up with a tan suit, only to scandalize the fusty Washington establishment.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Water damage and mold marked the ornate, gilded plasterwork, and paint—in a fusty Empire red—was peeling off the walls.
—Alice Cavanagh, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Paradoxically, the most lucrative magazine today is likely the Costco Connection, which emerges monthly from the fusty and secretive Kirkland, WA, marketing empire.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
In keeping with his transformational persona, Barack Obama tried to liven things up with a tan suit, only to scandalize the fusty Washington establishment.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Water damage and mold marked the ornate, gilded plasterwork, and paint—in a fusty Empire red—was peeling off the walls.
—Alice Cavanagh, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fusty
Adjective
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Cox sold the Statesman but retained ownership of its 18.9-acre site, a property many developers had long coveted and said was ripe for new development.—
Shonda Novak,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The tomato was ripe, the onion slices added bite and the tuft of alfalfa sprouts was fresh and earthy.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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If your clothes have a mildewy, musty smell, then vinegar can save the day by banishing these unwanted odors.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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Common signs of moldy books include a musty or earthy smell, discoloration (especially black, white, green, or orange spots), soft or fuzzy patches on the cover or pages, and warped or wavy pages due to moisture.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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The smelly, hairy animals with terrible eyesight are actually a type of mammal known as a collared peccary.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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Words for different smells, or things that are smelly.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Rue was considered the most malodorous of all herbs, was even thought to keep away evil spirits, and was spread on church floors for this purpose.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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The foul was upgraded to a flagrant foul penalty 2, resulting in an automatic ejection for Banks.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2025
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The other is a red panda named Bad Rudi with a penchant for foul language.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Indeed, the trio looked filthy, and one even had a red, watery eye.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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Sharp has long been one of New York’s filthiest comedians.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.—
Graham Techler,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Fusty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusty. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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