1 of little value; unpleasant:
All he gave me was a mouldy old 50p.
The city's museums are filled with mouldy old collections.
With the emergence of bebop, swing proponents were cast in the role of mouldy figs.
If linseed cake stands during the winter, it invariably goes mouldy, and the young calves cannot thrive on it.
This time there is plenty of straw—some of it a bit mouldy, perhaps, but still it is straw.
It is true that the number of complaints has increased, but the 11,500 refers to foreign matter, and mouldy food accounts for another 4,500.
One might say that the regulations are from the same mould, but that some are more mouldy than others.
So it is not such a mouldy turnip after all?
Now they want to give something to the landlords, and what they have given is a mouldy old turnip.
Damp and mouldy housing, together with high levels of pollution in urban areas, are largely responsible for the difference in incidence between social classes.
