What's the difference between fusty and musty?

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.

Musty


Definition:

  • (n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
  • (n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
  • (n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
  • (2) Ingestion by hens and broilers of specific chloroanisols present in some wood shavings used in poultry cages can result in a musty taste in poultry products.
  • (3) The commercial product may have a light-yellow to cream color with a musty odor (Hartley and Kidd, 1983).
  • (4) But going by the musty books lining the walls, it does look like this new incarnation might have more of an intellectual, introspective bent.
  • (5) The symbolism was not hard to fathom: here, cooed the pages showing candidates at home, was a bright, straightforward, modern party; an explosion of youthful colour along the musty, dark-wood corridors of traditional Spanish politics.
  • (6) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
  • (7) Stay away from the courtyard rooms, which are darker and can get musty in the tropical heat.
  • (8) Stored in a musty room upstairs are thousands of historical posters and documents that he hopes one day to store in a national archive.
  • (9) Untreated PKU causes severe mental retardation, musty odor, hyperactivity, seizures, eczema and hypopigmentation.
  • (10) In common with most Arab countries, public access to official information in Egypt is almost nonexistent, with state archives buried beneath a musty web of security restrictions and a deeply entrenched government culture of destroying or hiding any records that could prove awkward.
  • (11) No one contracted the disease who had not something to do with this musty straw.
  • (12) Cultures of Penicillium expansum produce a musty, earthy odor.
  • (13) The women, who are here to promote their Girls Matter campaign, insist they can’t talk politics because they represent a charity and have to be neutral, but they can’t disguise their enthusiasm for this strange, musty old world.
  • (14) Moulds or fungi that grow in grains and seeds during storage and transport cause germination decrease, visible mouldiness, discoloration, musty or sour odours, caking, chemical and nutritional changes, reduction in processing quality, and form of mycotoxins.
  • (15) Both oct-1-en-3-ol and cis-2-octen-1-ol are thought to be responsible for the characteristic musty-fungal odor of certain fungi; the latter compound may be a useful chemical index of fungal growth.
  • (16) The characteristic non-specific uptake of dye from media into the colonies and their musty or earthy odour rendered them easily distinguishable from other organisms.
  • (17) Regal and robed, the justices of the US supreme court often cite musty edicts of centuries past and sheaves of legal reasoning accumulated over the decades.
  • (18) The saving grace is that he can present himself as a new broom, albeit with Augean stables rather than musty warehouses to be cleaned out.
  • (19) F. A. LINNIK (1938) noted that immediately before falling sick patients had been in close contact with musty straw.
  • (20) Updike typically gives us every beautifully rendered detail: the fall of morning light, the "musty cidery smell" of pine needles, the texture of the blanket they lie on.

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