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mustiness

[ UK /mˈʌstɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

How To Use mustiness In A Sentence

  • The blackened walls from a fire that happened some four years ago reeked of cigarette smoke and mustiness.
  • At low levels, it creates a faint mustiness that leaves less-than-confident drinkers believing they just don't appreciate the nuances of wine.
  • The air is clean and damp; I breathe in great lungfuls of the lovely woodland mustiness, the warm earthiness that you find only here. Horse riding in Ashdown Forest
  • Natural flavours and aromas such as floral, fruit, honey and chocolate are better than flavours that come from mistakes made during drying, such as mustiness or moldiness. Can coffee wreck your marriage?
  • The whole place smelt strongly of fried food underlain with a general unpleasant mustiness. LOST SUMMER
  • It smelled of neglect, with the sour mustiness of that rot eating away at underpinnings. DOLL'S EYES
  • The displays in these memorials give an impression of mustiness and hostility to innovation.
  • The smell of the lavender was dry and faint, and a mustiness hung in the air like motes of dust. GREEDY • by Stephanie Siebert
  • The Library smelled of paper, umbrellas, furniture polish, warm computers; it had a delectable mustiness. Audrey Niffenegger | Moths of the New World
  • But even if the place had been pitch black, I would have known by its smell—a mix of mustiness, dust, and paint—that I was in an old theater, the kind with worn gilt edges and heavy velvet curtains that hung a little longer each year. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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