Synonyms:
fusty, musty, frowsty
Meaning: stale and unclean smelling
Synonyms:
moldy, mouldy, musty
Meaning: covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"
Usage examples
Here she came day after day, when her work was done, to pore over the musty old volumes of tales forgotten long ago.
Hastening back to Perry where he pored over a musty pile of, to me, meaningless hieroglyphics, I explained my plan to him.
Queer little books they were, time-yellowed and musty smelling, but to story-loving little Betty, hungry for something new, they seemed a veritable gold-mine.
The musty farm parlour, looking out on to a prim, cheerless garden imprisoned within high, blank walls, was not a room that lent itself readily either to comfort or decoration.