fustiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fustiness
Noun
  • Coach Billy Napier’s team blended play-calling staleness, horrendous clock management, defensive containment issues and overall immaturity.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even keeping its ever-looming obsolescence at bay for another decade or three.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In that case, universities are fine-tuning their students for obsolescence, and the latter are paying handsomely for this privilege.
    Toby Stuart, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister won a landslide victory against his rival Firmin Edouard Matoko, a veteran diplomat and economist from Congo Brazzaville.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Athenians have been legume lovers since antiquity, and beans and pulses remain a fixture on meze menus the city over as a healthier, more affordable alternative to meat.
    Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There was seemingly a healthy respect between the players, like opposing superstars Virat Kohli and Babar Azam sharing a laugh in an enduring image, in what was a snapshot of the possibilities when the stench of politics is absent.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The family claimed their house was plagued with blood-curdling screams, foul stenches and other terrors: Jack Smurl and one of his daughters had been tossed around the house, as was the family’s pet German shepherd.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Buffalo probably will pull out of this funk, but what then?
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The longtime outfit from Omaha, Nebraska, that melds rock, reggae, rap and funk first declared March 11 (get it?
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Carson Wentz‘s stat line didn’t reek of disaster in Sunday’s loss to Pittsburgh in Dublin.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The town itself is also undergoing a massive urban re-development initiative led by Quasartico — which definitely reeks of gentrification and will probably be nefarious in the long run.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even on the gaming front, the Xenomorphs are going strong with great Alien games like Aliens: Dark Descent and Aliens: Fireteam Elite, eradicating the stink that 2013's Aliens: Colonial Marines left hanging over the franchise.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The raw sewage rises to the surface, adding to the unbearable stink, which spreads and worsens with every passing day.
    Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Fustiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fustiness. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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