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fustiness

noun

Etymology

From fusty + -ness.

  1. inherited from fusty
  2. suffixed as fustiness — “fusty + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being fusty.

    • […] 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA