fusty

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Under Mr Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness.
在佈萊爾先生治下，古板的舊英國成了代表“開放”的國際典範(fàn)。
This, his third gardening book, is also his first in 25 years, but little here feels fusty or irrelevant.
這是他出的第三本書，上次出書還是25年前。但是書中幾乎沒有過時(shí)和離題的內(nèi)容。
But critics complain that they also seek to extend fusty regulations from the era of broadcast television to today's very different technologies.
但是批評家指出他們還要改進(jìn)那些廣播電眡時(shí)代的舊法條，以（適應(yīng)）時(shí)下已全然不同的新技術(shù)。

VatiLeaks, as the scandal came to be known, dragged the fusty institution into the wild WikiLeaks era.
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He gave people brash game shows and imported soaps, sweeping away the fusty piety that had previously dominated the media.
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During its first term, the answers the party came up with involved ditching allusions to fusty traditions and insisting that Britain was a young country.
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(SMELL) not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet
(OLD-FASHIONED) old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs

If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas.
A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant.