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fustily
adverb
uk /ˈfʌs.təl.i/ us /ˈfʌs.təl.i/
fustilyadverb (OLD-FASHIONED)
in an old-fashioned way:
Even gifted actors find this wordy and fustily academic play difficult.
Her makeover of the old man's fustily furnished home caused great delight among her friends.
At the end of the show, the female lead is joined by a fustily dressed choir.
She lay in her fustily feminine bedroom in her little house.
In the hallway there's a fustily floral carpet and a smell of air freshener.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
have had its/your dayidiom
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outmoded
outworn
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed
unsmart
fustilyadverb (SMELL)
in a way that is not fresh and that smells unpleasant, especially because of being left slightly wet:
I slowly turned over the fustily smelling pages in front of me.
The room was cold and smelled fustily damp.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Smells & smelling
acridly
anosmic
bergamot
deodorize
deodorizing
fragrant
fullness
malodorous
minging
niff
orangey
petrichor
piny
pungency
pungently
redolent
scented
smelly
sniff
stink
Related word
fusty
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