The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

Usage examples of mustiness.

I grew faint from a reek of infinite mustiness which welled out to meet us, and which must have been the fruit of unwholesome centuries of decay.

Neither he nor his son Archer knew of the shunned house as other than a nuisance almost impossible to rent-- perhaps on account of the mustiness and sickly odour of unkempt old age.

Nothing new rewarded my efforts-only the same depressing mustiness and faint suggestions of noxious odours and nitrous outlines on the floor--and I fancy that many pedestrians must have watched me curiously through the broken panes.

A chilly dampness hung in the air, but Paul found it refreshing after the mustiness of the cellar.

The air in the store seemed suddenly too close, and the cold mustiness was tinged with the smell of earth.

The air in the little store seemed hot and cloying, and the mustiness had worked its way deep into the mask of his face.

She could hear crickets singing faintly, feel the fresh night air wafting toward her through the frigid mustiness of the house.

And it is free now of that rank mustiness that no scent-fountain can ever disguise, that of our creations, the beastmen, the slaves.

Oppressive mustiness clogged our nostrils, but the charnel stench was gone.

This tack room was very cold indeed, and in the air the ingrained smells of leather and saddle soap were overlaid by a dead sort of mustiness.

Neither he nor his son Archer knew of the shunned house as other than a nuisance almost impossible to rent - perhaps on account of the mustiness and sickly odour of unkempt old age.

The air was filled with odors from hot electrical equipment, whiffets of perfume, Hogge'Poa smoke indicating Bears somewhere in the area, and the all-pervading odor of mustiness from the ancient building itself.