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Example sentences for: musty

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Traditional conservative causes like the gold standard tend to have a musty, old-fashioned feel.
Those dreading a standard-issue, musty Miss Havisham will be delighted by this flamboyantly posturing, pantsuit-clad crone with her face cream and "chica-boom" slang.
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.)
Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.
Lately, an old word has resurfaced: The United States stands accused of hegemonism . Didn't this musty term figure in Thucydides' description of how Sparta feared the rising power of Athens?