Read full poem →2 Impertinent schools,
With musty dull rules,
Have reading to females denied:
Dictionary Entry
Having a stale odor.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “musty”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For olden verse that smacks of love and wine,
The musty pages of old volumes turning,
May light upon a little song of mine,
Read full poem →The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year's ferns....
Read full poem →At the bleak end of night; he shivered there
In a dank, musty dug-out where he lay,
Legs wrapped in sand-bags,--lumps of chalk and clay