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Fustily

7 lettersadverbrare

Updated June 2026

Definition

In a musty or stale-smelling manner, suggestive of age, damp, or a lack of fresh air.

The old library smelled fustily of leather bindings and accumulated decades of dust.

Pronunciation

Syllables

fus·ti·ly

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Synonyms

mustilystalelystuffily

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Wordle

Ends in -LY with FUSTY as the root, contains F, U, S, T, I, L, Y across seven letters

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Scrabble

Worth 13 points with Y scoring 4, a rare adverb but perfectly valid from the FUST root

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