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Having a stale, moldy, or damp smell

Aged, old-fashioned, or out of date

Repeated often to the point of being stale or commonplace

Overly formal, pompous or conventional

Dark, damp and humid

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Adjective

Having a stale, moldy, or damp smell

strong-smelling

stinking to high heaven

unfit for human consumption

like a Turkish bath

stomach-churning

stomach-turning

beyond the pale

very unpleasant

unsportsmanlike

a load of pants

unpleasant to breathe

unfit to breathe

demoralizing^US

very disgusting

dishonourable^UK

poverty-stricken

demoralising^UK

ill-favoured^UK

dishonorable^US

lacking in freshenss

not up to snuff

disadvantageous

strictly for the birds

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“Hurrying into the heart of the library, the musty smell of old ink and rotting paper curled around her nostrils.”

Adjective

Aged, old-fashioned, or out of date

behind the times

backward-looking

horse-and-buggy

of the old school

horse and buggy

out of commission

fallen into disuse

no longer in use

past its sell-by date

old as the hills

as old as the hills

on its last legs

long in the tooth

past one's sell-by date

anachronistical

well-established

old as Methuselah

having seen better days

no longer fashionable

no longer in fashion

in period style

not fashionable

becoming obsolete

of an advanced age

advanced in years

traditionalistic

water over the dam

sunk in oblivion

water under the bridge

down memory lane

not long for this world

past your prime

not as young as one used to be

not as young as one was

no spring chicken

deemed obsolete

going out of use

going out of fashion

consigned to oblivion

ultraconservative

long-established

paleoconservative

archconservative

stick-in-the-mud

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“But why bring up a forgotten and musty argument, even if the protagonists were two of the most colorful and brilliant men of the nineteenth century?”

Adjective

Repeated often to the point of being stale or commonplace

run-of-the-mill

standardized^US

conventionalized

standardised^UK

past their sell-by date

like a dinosaur

dull as dishwater

the worse for wear

undistinguished

middle-of-the-road

no great shakes

nothing to write home about

common or garden

lacking variety

run of the mill

lacking variation

lacking excitement

lacking interest

nothing to get excited about

soul-destroying

unsophisticated

dull as ditchwater

run-of-the-mine

middle of the road

nothing special

fair-to-middling

readily available

widely available

fair to middling

of poor quality

matter-of-course

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“Other passages lapse into the formal, musty prose of a nineteenth-century French novel.”

Adjective

Overly formal, pompous or conventional

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

prim and proper

schoolmistressy

holier-than-thou

goody-two-shoes

socially acceptable

behind the times

too good to be true

to keep up appearances

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Adjective

Dark, damp and humid

like a Turkish bath

like a blowtorch

badly ventilated

poorly ventilated

covered with sweat

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