musty

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Smells & smelling
acridly
anosmic
bergamot
deodorize
deodorizing
fragrant
fullness
malodorous
minging
niff
olfactory nerve
orangey
petrichor
piny
pungency
redolent
scented
smelly
sniff
stink

Examples from literature

For surely she was in exile there, an exile from all the fun and frolic and, fury of life, marooned in weary isolation, on a high stool, in a frowsty table d'hôte, in the living heart of London.