musty

1. (figuratively)Examples: "An antiquarie is an honest man, for he had rather scrape a piece of copper out of the durt, than a crowne out of Plodion's standish. I know manie wise gentlemen of this mustie vocation, […]"; "[W]hile the graſſe grovves, the Prouerbe is ſomething muſty."; "Have done, I beg you, vvith your muſty Reflections: You but interrupt the Examination."Synonyms: outmodedfiguratively

2. (figuratively)Examples: "[T]hey ſettle upon their ovvn dregs, and grovv muddy and muſty vvith long eaſe, and their proſperity befooleth them to their ovvn deſtruction."; "[B]eing married to a bookish man, who has no knowledge of the world, she is forced to take their affairs into her own hands, and to spirit him up now and then, that he may not grow musty, and unfit for conversation."; "My friend the doctor was a thorough antiquary: a little rusty, musty old fellow, always groping among ruins."Synonyms: fogeyishfiguratively

3. (figuratively)Examples: "The ill-vvounded Don Quixote vvas exceeding muſty and melancholy, vvith his face bound vp, and ſcarred not by the hand of God, but by the nayles of a Cat (misfortunes annexed to Knight Errantry) ſixe dayes paſt ere hee came abroad: […]"; "He is monſtrous vexed, and muſty, at my Cheſſe-play; […]"; "VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning."figuratively