What's the difference between fusty and lusty?

Fusty


Definition:

  • (superl) Moping.
  • (superl) Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simply, Apple is a gigantic company, and iOS in particular is seen as being at a crossroads: Android has overtaken it in sales terms and many critics say it offers users more flexibility – so what's Apple going to do to stop the iPhone looking fusty?
  • (2) It is thought that her biggest challenge will be helping M&S clothes, which have been criticised as fusty, appeal to a younger audience, something she had experience of while working at Jaeger.
  • (3) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
  • (4) He has transformed the image of Burberry from a fusty, aging brand worn by middle-aged golfers or ripped off for the football terraces into a modern global empire.
  • (5) In her slightly fusty offices off Drury Lane, Michel enthuses about the new TV and internet-based deals for clients, from Simon Schama to Twiggy (she has a planned musical), and garden writer Sarah Raven, Michel's first client.
  • (6) Wednesday gave the lie to the idea that our young people are thoroughly post-ideological creatures, with no fight in them; if even the most fusty newspapers are worried about the chasm that separates the government from the so-called squeezed middle, you can bet that the politics of class may yet make an unexpected comeback.
  • (7) Credit unions have had a fusty reputation in the past, restricting their membership to people in certain professions or to small community groups.
  • (8) This is fusty, old-school outrage, spluttered in your mind's eye by a swivel-eyed ex-colonel with dangerously high blood pressure.
  • (9) To begin with, it was a different kind of image problem: in Georgian society gin was considered rackety and sordid, not fusty and old-fashioned as it was in the swinging 60s.
  • (10) His image is fusty and secretive, but he's the first prime minister to sit in an open-plan office in Downing Street.
  • (11) In 2006, Ahrendts got a call from fellow American Rose Marie Bravo who had been busy resuscitating the fusty old British brand Burberry .
  • (12) Critical verdict Self knits a dense patchwork of high-minded low living (he ascribes the "weirdly fusty narrative voice in some of my work" to his cerebral childhood).
  • (13) It's an interesting cultural moment: on the one hand, the self-appointed cyberhustler experts in the "future of news" spend their time mocking the fustiness of old media; on the other hand, a star online destination wants to sound more like one of its paper-based predecessors.
  • (14) Here's Purcell meeting David Lodge at a rave (Love Is a Bourgeois Construct), dirty techno inspired by Michael Gambon's description of theatre (Shouting in the Evening), a collaboration with Example which doesn't sound fusty, but fresh (Thursday) plus tons of ambition, life, light and noise.
  • (15) With its crab cakes, wedge salad and a range of steaks up to a mahoosive 48oz porterhouse, it’s a magnificent and mildly fusty slice of unreconstructed, Rat Pack-era Americana.
  • (16) The documentary, she says, painted her as "the forward-looking, thrusting, blond, ball-breaking editor versus the fusty inherited family business".
  • (17) We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
  • (18) Take it to a bookshop The fusty old book business may still be a lifeline for self-published authors and its collapse hurts all authors.
  • (19) The Union Jack backdrop and jacket represent both a punky subversion of a national symbol and a serious statement about the rebranding of a fusty, static, class-ridden country as the international centre of a synaesthetic youth culture.
  • (20) I don't see why fusty tradition, principally upheld by the FTSE-Ferrari crowd, should insist on it as the professional norm.

Lusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
  • (superl.) Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.
  • (superl.) Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.
  • (superl.) Lustful; lascivious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
  • (2) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
  • (3) Each of these MgATP sites contains a peptide from one of the internal duplicated regions of the enzyme molecule, which have previously been suggested as containing MgATP sites (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K. E., Widgren, E. E., and Lusty, C. J.
  • (4) The Swiss ping it around awhile, to a lusty chorus of "olé"s, led by the Brazilian contingent in the crowd I'll be bound.
  • (5) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
  • (6) 57 min After Zhirkov sees yellow for a typically lusty challenge, Sychev comes on to replace Saenko.
  • (7) 7.49pm BST 3 min: A lusty tackle by Bornw gives Karagandy a freekick some 40 yards out and a chance for the visitors to test whether Celtic have repaired their defence since last week.
  • (8) Since the catalytically active enzyme is a tetramer composed of four identical or closely similar subunits (Lusty, C.J., and Ratner, S. (1972) J. Biol.
  • (9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
  • (10) Sequence analysis has revealed internal duplication within the synthetase molecule (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K.E., Widgren, E.E., and Lusty, C.J.
  • (11) Hardcore taps into a 14-year-old boy’s brain, marinating in a vat of Mountain Dew, fantasising about high-energy kills, lusty women and loud music,” wrote Hoffman in September.
  • (12) Speeches calling for Britain to withdraw from the European Union were cheered with the lusty conviction that their dream of a divorce will turn into a reality.
  • (13) The Devils sat atop the UK box office chart for eight weeks, scandalising the masses with its tale of lusty priests and demented nuns in 17th-century France.
  • (14) In Sally's eyes, Tim is an irresistible bit of rough, dribbling with lusty physicality.
  • (15) Delafield, F. P. (University of California, Berkeley), M. Doudoroff, N. J. Palleroni, C. J. Lusty, and R. Contopoulos.
  • (16) Nasiri Bazanjani, the Iranian who cruised over the line seven metres ahead of the rest, also underlined the improvement in that country's performances at these Games and was greeted with lusty cheers as he received his gold.
  • (17) This has become a kind of Cannes tradition, a lusty whoop to get the proceedings under way, and it is invariably greeted with an affectionate ripple of laughter.
  • (18) Seen through the eyes of her sister, Elizabeth, she appears to be a vulgar, lusty hoyden, whose outrageous antics put all her sisters' reputations at risk.
  • (19) davidgray.com I’m getting oodles of eastern pride with lusty overtones of death or glory, I’m getting a spine of florid pomposity with top notes of Tom and Jerry, I’m getting Viennese marching music with a strong hint of moustache oil, I’m getting really bored, this thing goes on and on … Weighing in at a hefty five minutes, six seconds, this is officially the longest national anthem in the world.
  • (20) Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud gave the hosts the lead shortly before the hour mark but Romania levelled from the penalty spot, before Payet stepped up to arrow his shot into the top corner and prompted a lusty rendition of the La Marseillaise, sung as much in relief as in triumph.

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