mustily

adv. musty的变形

词形变化

more mustily 比较级 most mustily 最高级

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    In a musty manner.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, translated by John Florio, The Second Chapter, “Of Repenting,” […] nor are there any spirits, or very rare ones, which in growing old taste not sowrely and mustily.

    1908, O. Henry, “The Shocks of Doom” in The Voice of The City: Further Stories of the Four Million, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, pp. 96-7, He was either young or old; cheap lodging-houses had flavored him mustily; razors and combs had passed him by; in him drink had been bottled and sealed in the devil’s bond.

词源

From musty + -ly.

来源:wiktionary