What Does Mustily Mean?

1. Stale or moldy in odor or taste. 2. a. Hackneyed or trite; dull.

What does musty mean in slang?

malodorous, stinking, fetid, noisome, putrid, rank, fusty, musty mean bad-smelling. malodorous may range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive.

Is musty an insult?

Use the word musty to describe an unclean, stale, and possibly moldy smell. ... You might also call the smell of a musty old basement rank or foul. But people also use musty to insult someone's writing, or their ideas. A musty speech wouldn't just be old-fashioned, it would be old in a bad way: rotten and boring.