Definition of "musty" []

• Stale or moldy in odor or taste. (adjective)
• Hackneyed or trite; dull. (adjective)
• Out of date; antiquated. (adjective)
• Out of use or practice; rusty. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In high school I'd skip lunch and spend the money in musty bookstores on Jackson Blvd., their names long forgotten."
• "The two boys stared down at the black rectangle on the table, breathing in musty basement air."
• "Musty documents filed away in musty drawers, and old, old letters and deeds-of-law with crumbling edges, referred to it casually."