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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Aged, old-fashioned, or out of date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

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

very disgusting

unsportsmanlike

demoralizing^US

unpleasant to breathe

unfit to breathe

strictly for the birds

demoralising^UK

poverty-stricken

lacking in freshenss

unfavourable^UK

ill-favoured^UK

a load of pants

too horrible for words

indescribably bad

beyond description

indescribably wicked

indescribably evil

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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Aged, old-fashioned, or out of date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

horse-and-buggy

backward-looking

of the old school

horse and buggy

fallen into disuse

no longer in use

out of commission

past its sell-by date

old as the hills

as old as the hills

on its last legs

past your sell-by date

long in the tooth

anachronistical

well-established

having seen better days

old as Methuselah

no longer fashionable

in period style

no longer in fashion

not fashionable

sunk in oblivion

down memory lane

becoming obsolete

of an advanced age

advanced in years

traditionalistic

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

dull as dishwater

undistinguished

no great shakes

middle-of-the-road

nothing to write home about

common or garden

lacking variety

unsophisticated

run of the mill

lacking variation

lacking excitement

lacking interest

nothing to get excited about

soul-destroying

run-of-the-mine

dull as ditchwater

middle of the road

nothing special

readily available

widely available

fair-to-middling

fair to middling

straightforward

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

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