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- adjective
superlative form offusty : mostfusty .
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Examples
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Gamini Dissanayake made a charismatic case for Sri Lanka cricket on that day in June 1981, winning over the fustiest of cricket administrators with an eloquent plea for them to be granted Test status.
The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011
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(And just to cover his bases, Monteverdi also packaged with it a setting of the Mass, done impeccably in the fustiest old-fashioned style.)
SFGate: Top News Stories Joshua Kosman 2010
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(And just to cover his bases, Monteverdi also packaged with it a setting of the Mass, done impeccably in the fustiest old-fashioned style.)
SFGate: Top News Stories Joshua Kosman 2010
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(And just to cover his bases, Monteverdi also packaged with it a setting of the Mass, done impeccably in the fustiest old-fashioned style.)
SFGate: Top News Stories Joshua Kosman 2010
lalochezian commented on the word fustiest
adj. 1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
February 28, 2009