Fustiness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fustiness is a noun meaning The quality of being fusty.
Meaning
The quality of being fusty.
Example Sentences
[…] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race.
[T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
Word Forms
- fustinesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fumosity, fuminess, fugginess, fetidness, fetidity, fudginess.
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