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Adjective: fusty (fustier,fustiest)  fús-tee
  1. Stale and unclean smelling
    "What are you going to do with all that fusty old art and history of yours?";
    - musty, frowsty [Brit, informal]
     
  2. Old-fashioned and out of date
    - standpat, unprogressive, nonprogressive

Derived forms: fustiest, fustier

See also: conservative, ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], minging [Brit, informal], pongy [Brit, informal], stinky [informal], unpleasant-smelling, whiffy [Brit, informal]