1
as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
musty old gym socks
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as in cliche
used or heard so often as to be dull
the musty prose of writers who use the same expressions over and over
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Recent Examples of musty
Add half a cup to your rinse cycle for softer clothes and less musty smells.
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Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Eliminate musty closet smells by placing containers filled with kitty litter in a corner of the closet.
7 Ways to Banish Common Household Odors for a Fresher Home
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—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
Eliminate musty closet smells by placing containers filled with kitty litter in a corner of the closet.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
Some of his customers swear by it for getting rid of stubborn pit stains and freshening up musty towels, too.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2025
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Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Eliminate musty closet smells by placing containers filled with kitty litter in a corner of the closet.
7 Ways to Banish Common Household Odors for a Fresher Home
8.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
Eliminate musty closet smells by placing containers filled with kitty litter in a corner of the closet.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
Some of his customers swear by it for getting rid of stubborn pit stains and freshening up musty towels, too.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musty
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
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The steel frame is easy to wipe down, and the open design keeps it from trapping fusty odors.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
4 Mar. 2025
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Paradoxically, the most lucrative magazine today is likely the Costco Connection, which emerges monthly from the fusty and secretive Kirkland, WA, marketing empire.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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Their negative stereotyped reputation seems to follow them like ageism follows older employees or sexism follows female employees.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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At the time, Latinos were often cast in stereotyped roles with heavy accents and largely denied the opportunity to direct features.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Unity Biotechnology is a leading example, but the space is still early and ripe for newcomers.—
Abdo Riani,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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That means the weather was ripe for fire, and wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour quickly whipped the fire toward inhabited areas.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2025
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But people here are tired of seeing Farmington in the headlines as a town that's losing population.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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And there’s kids who are tired, or crying or can’t handle it.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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VanDerveer doesn’t expect Stanford to be in the running for prospects demanding high seven-figure salaries, which has become commonplace in the SEC and Big Ten.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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By early evening, with the sun sinking and power still out for most of Spain and Portugal, camaraderie became commonplace.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2025
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Its baleful guitar and hackneyed vocals make the average doubts shared by everyone who has ever been in love seem generic.—
Will Dukes,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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The movie’s a little more hackneyed and obvious now, but its central idea is still an undeniably creepy one: possessed children with pitchforks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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Usually, a smelly refrigerator is caused by specific foods inside it and how they're stored.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2025
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Before, the engine room was a noisy, smelly space below deck.—
Chun-Lien Su,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 July 2019
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“Musty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musty. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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