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• It had its own smell – slightly musty and outhousey, but pleasant.2013, Bernardine Bishop, Unexpected Lessons in Love, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 387. From the entry outhousey
• The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer.2004, T R Pearson, True Cross. From the entry dandruffy
• But the wet, musty cardboard of 2,4,6 trichloroanisole wasn't part of the problem.2002 March 30, Allan Smith, “Where are the anti gun nuts?”, in misc.news.internet.discuss (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun…. From the entry chickenpoop
• It was dark and musty, the carpet giving off an olid smell of mildew.2000, Chris R. Jamison, The Chesler Legacy, page 46. From the entry olid
• The place smelled of shoepolish, not the usual musty hymn-books she associated with chapels.1996 [1994], Peter Robinson, Final Account: An Inspector Banks Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 206. From the entry shoepolish
• Does your past lie under a dustsheet in the corner of a musty garage?1991, Fish, “Dear Friend”, in Internal Exile. From the entry dustsheet
• A musty smell swells from the mounted lark, blitheless in spirit.1964, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, The London Magazine - Volume 4 - Page 20. From the entry blitheless
• It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry dismal
• At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust.1912 January, Zane Grey, “Surprise Valley”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC…. From the entry zigzag
• The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry dunnage
• A still summer night a world away in a house that smells of cactus and dust and musty kapok.2014 [1993], Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, page 15. From the entry kapok
• Like most good antique stores, a musty scent pervaded the crowded maze of furniture, knick-knacks, books, clothing, and other junque.2011, Wendy V, How to Eat a Pizza From a Can, page 100. From the entry junque
• However, many buy a wetsuit, because it can be pretty unpleasant to put on a musty hire suit.2006 December 8, “All you need to know about: Scuba diving”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry shorty
• The chief activity of ball players on the road in the musty, non-air-conditioned hotels was skirt-chasing and lobby-sitting.2006, Ray Robinson, Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time. From the entry non-air-conditioned
• Its slightly musty odor smelled of trout.1997 June, Field & Stream, volume 102, number 2, page 138. From the entry burble
• So many other beloved greasy spoons, corner taverns and musty used-bookstores are gone that the impact of something Red Skelton said finally hit home.2021 August 23, Ron Grossman, “Chicago’s rapid change may be ‘progress,’ but it doesn’t always feel like an improvement”, in Chicago…. From the entry used-bookstore
• All of it seems impossibly old, musty, dense with the smells of upholstery and cooking: holubky; apple butter; tuna, onions, and vinegar.2002, Paul Lisicky, Famous Builder, Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry holubky
• The musty smell of old thatch was mingled with the smell of Mrs Tulsi’s medicaments: bay rum, soft candles, Canadian Healing Oil, ammonia.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4. From the entry medicament
• Half the pages of the frazzled directory hanging on a chain in the musty old booth into which I furtively sidled had turned their corners back on themselves.1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 3, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 34. From the entry frowzy
• From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry mephitic

Meaning of musty

1. adjective Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
2. adjective Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.
3. adjective Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.

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How do you use musty in a sentence?

Musty is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “It was a thin book bound in faded morocco, with a copper-plate engraving as a frontispiece; the pages were musty with age and stained with mould.”

What is a short sentence with musty?

“Its slightly musty odor smelled of trout.”

What does musty mean?

Musty means affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.