fustiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fustiness
Noun
  • For now, white-collar workers face a stark reality, adapt or risk obsolescence.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • That valuation is justified by its reliance on Nvidia chips, which last long, thereby questioning the notion of obsolescence.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Schools in antiquity placed an emphasis on healthy minds and healthy bodies — and teachers ensured that young men were physically and intellectually ready for adult life.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Many of the antiquities in the Palmyra museum were sent to Damascus for safekeeping after the start of the civil war.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All these ailments seem to ebb and flow along with the toxic stench of the wastewater.
    Kimberly Dickson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • In addition to beach closures, Navy SEALs and recruits train near the toxic runoff and children and some elderly residents on the U.S. side of the border have gotten sick because of the stench from the runoff, said Desmond.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet in all that crumbling concrete, there were stray weeds and flowers — the artists and thrill-seekers who grooved on the funk and the fear.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Chisholm, hindered by his distaste for cold weather, broke out of that funk with a home run on April 13.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Conor Heffernan, who lectures on the history of sports and fitness at Ulster University, in Ireland, said the current vogue for biohacking, and its protein boosterism, reeks of snake oil.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Here, again, is the kind of scenario that reeks of Moscow disinformation.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Way worse players than him, would keep up a stink about their lack of playing time.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The campaign sees the baseball great tackling stink by partnering up with umpires by using Lysol Laundry Sanitizer.
    DJ Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Fustiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fustiness. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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