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  • adjective superlative form of musty: most musty.

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Examples

  • Again Jansen played the mustiest of numbers with a remarkable freshness.

    One horse town 2008

  • Again Jansen played the mustiest of numbers with a remarkable freshness.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • In the earliest and mustiest volume of the Havenpool marriage registers (said the thin-faced gentleman) this entry may still be read by any one curious enough to decipher the crabbed handwriting of the date.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • But as regards precedence, the observance of the forms and rites of office management, our 'revolutionariness' often gives way to the mustiest routine ...

    ANC Today 2006

  • But as regards precedence, the observance of the forms and rites of office management, our 'revolutionariness' often gives way to the mustiest routine ...

    ANC Today 2006

  • LAMB: Where would you go if you were going to stand in the spot where you found it to be just the worst, the dirtiest and the mustiest and where you just said, "I can't take anymore of this," or whatever your reaction was?

    The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century 1996

  • To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service specialist, the mustiest of bookworms and a highly-trained expert in the science and language of the American advertising business.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various

  • Incidentally, he was a hard rider to hounds, a good boxer, and a man who carried a fresh-air flavour into the mustiest law chambers.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Incidentally, he was a hard rider to hounds, a good boxer, and a man who carried a fresh-air flavour into the mustiest law chambers.

    The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • A little more, and they would have ascribed to her the tastes of the mustiest symbolists -- and one knows how far from pleasing are those Muses 'robes, how odious the yellow bandeaux above faces expressionless as eggs.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

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