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Перевод: fusty

[прилагательное]
затхлый; спертый; устаревший; старомодный

Тезаурус:

1. Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.
2. The two women in the sombre, fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller's Hill House; Matthew Choak, trying his uncle's chair for size; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora's box; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame; the clothing, some of it blood-stained, spread out on tables in the police station.
3. Whenever the volcanos held their fusty ashen breath, the white sun cruelly baked the lava plains, from which polishing thermal winds whipped dust away towards the east, always eastward, to the Death Drifts, a shallow sea without liquid.
4. Upstairs, bedrooms, lovely rooms in themselves, but all fusty, unlived-in.
5. Only the windows had been modernized, with the old, many-paned windows replaced with blank sheets of glass through which Anna could see the inhabitants, burrowed deep in the comfortable fusty layers of their living-rooms, mindlessly absorbed in the relentless quacking of the television set.
6. Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks.
7. The low intensity of these rural idylls shows up the problems created by the failure of the commercially-minded companies to generate anything other than fusty, studio-bound melodramas, as unsuccessful in their way as the airy, de-sensationalized productions of their more creative competitors.
8. So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.
9. His trousers were rough against her skin and smelt fusty like the church where he spent so many hours praying, presumably, for guidance.
10. The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty, like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator.
11. If the old guard could be depicted as slightly fusty quasi-academics, the "new boys", who became the opinion leaders in the 1970s, with their retinue of henchmen and clones at local level, were more populist in their manner and opportunist in their principles.
12. There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.
13. As the royal separation was announced, Camilla may have been glued to the TV in the fusty drawing-room of 18th-century Middlewick House in Corsham.