Examples of musty

• It already seems doomed to a musty grave in academic history - for all its moderation and practicality.

• She gives him an egg, telling him to return when it smells musty.

• Since typical historians of science today are often quite different, their position now has a musty, anachronistic air.

• The scent was strong, somewhat sweet to sickly or musty, and unpleasant to humans.

• In the dying twilight, the inside of the musty warehouse, largely unused since 1941, has a pale blue cast, making the people, timbers and pillars appear as half-ghosts.

• We are accused of uttering musty old shibboleths.

• There is the musty smell of mediaevalism in such a principle and it must be removed.

• People will go into civic restaurants, and will be provided with a musty old sandwich that has done duty for hundreds of drinks.