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Moldy   /mˈoʊldi/   Listen
adjective
Mouldy, Moldy  adj.  (compar. moldier or mouldier; superl. moldiest or mouldiest)  Overgrown with, or containing, mold; smelling of mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.






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"Moldy" Quotes from Famous Books



... bed, or of always eating tough beef, or of being obliged to tighten his sword belt when luck had turned like a weathercock when the wind shifts, and a man would gladly give all his share of the next booty for a moldy crust of bread and a ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... are not misspellings: "dumfoundered" "parricide" "nobble" "finicking". "shewing" was very moldy at the time this was written but still not deceased. The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, was used as the authority for spellings. I don't know about "per mensem" Chapter XXXVI page 180, line 18. I don't ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... of fleas," said the traveler carelessly, "and moldy old places—it's awfully cold, too. I wore my furs a lot of the time. It smells bad nearly everywhere. Do you stay ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... on wings of the wind. Making ready for their return to their homeland, all the captives gathered on the outskirts of the desert. It was a piteous spectacle. The people were broken in health, their beauty marred, their weapon a staff, their garments the leather coat, their provisions pieces of moldy bread, and their path fifteen hundred miles of sands, across the desert. To such an end had come a disobedient and ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various



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