Mustily
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Mustily is an adverb meaning In a musty manner.
Meaning
In a musty manner.
Example Sentences
All this is but a light-headed understanding now; I mean, why so melancholy? thou lookest mustily, methinks.
The single window, square and mustily curtained, is so small that it cannot be imagined to admit much light on the brightest of days […]
He felt he was intruding, and hurried past the door with the coloured glass panes into the Book Room, which smelled mustily of old paper and worm-eaten wood.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, translated by John Florio, The Second Chapter, “Of Repenting,” […] nor are there any spirits, or very rare ones, which in growing old taste not sowrely and mustily.
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