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: August 8, 2024
\FUSS-tee\ adjective
What It Means
Someone or something described as fusty is rigidly old-fashioned. Fusty is also used as a synonym of musty to describe things that are full of dust and unpleasant, stale odors.
// Wanda is quick to admit that the music she prefers is fusty, as it excludes pretty much anything recorded after 1960.
// The trunk in the attic was full of fusty old clothes that smelled like mothballs.
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