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Example sentences for: musty

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The Softbook is a writing-tablet-size screen with a leather cover that gives off what someone must have imagined to be the musty scent of an old book (but is actually the smell of a new shoe).
Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.
Traditional conservative causes like the gold standard tend to have a musty, old-fashioned feel.
There are a few Nixon-era op-eds that are musty period pieces now.
The book "strands the reader in the musty groves of academe and mutes the passions of the subtitle," says Jungian analyst Claire Douglas in the Washington Post Book World . (Harvard University Press plugs the book.)