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Mustily

Mustily \Mus"ti*ly\, a. In a musty state.

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mustily

adv. In a musty manner.

Usage examples of "mustily".

Eddi Amsel and Jenny Brunies huddle mustily on the sofa in the background.

Dust had stirred mustily beneath her bare feet, had coated the disused junk and dilapidated boxes piled between and among the pillars, and had fogged the distant glow of a yellow flame that she was following to its source, a little tallow-dip lamp burning beside the dark sweep of a red porphyry Stair.

Now, as then, the Rolls Chapel was silent and smelled mustily of old parchment and ancient stone.

That mustily fragrant place was his favourite retreat when solitude seemed urgent.

It smelled of water, and mustily of old, old building, with newer, cleaner smells on top.

Dust had stirred mustily beneath her bare feet, had coated the disused junk and dilapidated boxes piled between and among the pillars, and had fogged the distant glow of a yellow flame that she was following to its source, a little tallow-dip lamp burning beside the dark sweep of a red porphyry stair.

Could the small restlessness of his own eyes broadcast the fact that he was damp with the disgust that had bred mustily within him?

The faint odor rose mustily in his nostrils as he stepped back and surveyed himself in the mirror.