Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with or containing mold.
- adjective Musty or stale, as from age or decay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overgrown or filled with mold; mildewed; musty; fusty; decaying; stale.
- noun A mole-catcher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Overgrown with, or containing, mold; smelling of mold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Covered withmold . - adjective
Stale ormusty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with or smelling of mold
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Examples
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Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.
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But his short stories are available only in moldy old paperbacks or expensive small-press books, and I don't think he's read much these days, which is a huge shame.
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Another method is to grind the water lilies into a pulp, put them in a pile, keep them moist, and let them get moldy -- in other words -- compost them for a week.
Chapter 15 1982
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I truly dislike discovering new living organisms (aka moldy food) in our refrigerator.
About.com Marriage 2010
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He turned out kind of moldy, and say! he was dumb.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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The Oxford English Dictionary takes the demure view that funky meant "moldy," although it notes that "funk" has often been used to mean tobacco smoke and may derive from the Latin fumar, to smoke.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Some time after that, the company came across the May "moldy" Twitter post.
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Some time after that, the company came across the May "moldy" Twitter post.
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Managers were bribed to purchase inferior ingredients such as moldy tomato sauce.
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The stalk was grayish-brown, kind of moldy looking.
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