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Definition of mouldy in English: mouldy(US moldy) adjectivemoldiest, moldier, mouldier, mouldiest ˈməʊldiˈmoʊldi 1Covered with a fungal growth which causes decay, due to age or damp conditions. 发霉的 发霉的面包。 Example sentencesExamples - A white or grayish powdery / moldy growth appears on the foliage, new shoots and buds.
- She quietly reads a book, oblivious to the great pockmarks of peeling paint and disintegrating plaster of the moldy wall behind her.
- Severely infected seeds appear shriveled, cracked, and elongated, and may be covered with a white, moldy growth.
- Two large black wings spread to an impressive 20 foot wind-span, the black feathers glistening in the damp, moldy city air.
- If a cork seems damp or mouldy at either end, this is not necessarily a sign of any wine fault.
- Beetles are frequently associated with poultry feed, preferring grain and cereal products that are damp, moldy and slightly out of condition.
- Others found stale bread or mouldy tomatoes, or items a bit too near their ‘best before’ dates.
- It's like comparing stale, moldy, rancid bread with soggy, stale, moldy, rancid bread.
- We had to throw out many things which had just gone mouldy in the damp but that has at least meant that we can get to any place within the garage without having to climb over anything.
- The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
- At home and in the field, the men around him had often complained of rotten meat and moldy bread.
- It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
- We never found out what was causing it, but I rather suspect that the carpets were mouldy from the damp.
- Indeed, the only food he could find, and which starvation caused him to digest, was mouldy crusts of bread covered in mouse droppings.
- How can the council say that this family are not a priority when they are living in mouldy, musty, damp conditions with a two-week old baby and a son who has asthma?
- ‘It was damp, it was mouldy, there was only one scrap of curtain,’ she says.
- Jean-Baptiste Canelle, for that was his name, sat behind a table covered with moldy bread crusts, half burned candles, and beer-stains.
- Cool and rainy weather in late spring induced moldy conditions in the cells that caused much larval mortality.
- Human exposure to biological contaminants in the air of damp and moldy indoor environments is a challenge for toxicological research and risk assessment.
- That was the last thing I wanted to smell and I emptied my already rather empty stomach onto the damp, moldy floor.
- He saw last weeks left over boiled potatoes, mouldy and covered with small dark flying insects.
Synonyms mildewed, mildewy, musty, mouldering, fusty blighted, smutty decaying, decayed, rotting, rotten, bad, spoiled, spoilt, decomposing, decomposed, rancid, rank, putrid, putrescent, putrefying rare mucid 2informal Tediously old-fashioned. 陈腐的；过时的 陈腐的习俗。 Example sentencesExamples - Forget the moldy old slide-show party.
- They feel entitled to de-clutter their lives from those mouldy old ancestral obligations.
- He loved it until he played a chess game with moldy old Uncle Hooya… and lost.
Synonyms old-fashioned, outmoded, out of fashion, out of date, unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outdated, dated, out, outworn, old, former, dead, musty, old-time, old-world, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated - 2.1British Dull or depressing.
〈非正式，主英〉乏味的；令人沮丧的 evenings filled with mouldy old shows 全都是老套而乏味表演的晚上。 Example sentencesExamples - Now this is more fun than mouldy old CDs - we had more snow this morning, from around 7: 30 am onwards.
- Capn's Final Word: More jangly versions of the same old moldy folk tunes that everyone else in the coffee shop knows by heart.
- I remember where the Kitchen is, and I know I'm sick of moldy old food we've got.
- You can accept your moldy old science with its unanswered questions and stupid bland facts and its ‘rigorous analytical processes.’
- And I'll be stuck slaving away in some moldy old courtroom, wondering ‘what if?’
- Not another mouldy old book to add to your ever growing collection!
- The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
Derivativesnoun ˈməʊldɪnəs The mixture of fresh green, and slightly dusty mouldiness Example sentencesExamples - From the old mold - and with some of the old moldiness.
- The starter of oysters with potatoes and Dunsyre blue was really three starters in one (alas, the salty freshness of oysters doesn't complement the mouldiness of blue cheese); the confit duck leg came in a dense, treacly reduction.
- There are about a dozen bags in all, each containing between two and twenty slices of various age and mouldiness.
- Dried figs range in many dark colors, depending on the variety and whether sulfur has been added to maintain color, inhibit moldiness, and strengthen the skin of the fig for preservation.
- A hard Norwegian cheese of exceptional mouldiness and sharp flavour.
Definition of moldy in US English: moldy(British mouldy) adjectiveˈmoʊldiˈmōldē 1Covered with a fungal growth that causes decay, due to age or damp conditions. 发霉的 发霉的面包。 Example sentencesExamples - Others found stale bread or mouldy tomatoes, or items a bit too near their ‘best before’ dates.
- ‘It was damp, it was mouldy, there was only one scrap of curtain,’ she says.
- It's like comparing stale, moldy, rancid bread with soggy, stale, moldy, rancid bread.
- How can the council say that this family are not a priority when they are living in mouldy, musty, damp conditions with a two-week old baby and a son who has asthma?
- At home and in the field, the men around him had often complained of rotten meat and moldy bread.
- Two large black wings spread to an impressive 20 foot wind-span, the black feathers glistening in the damp, moldy city air.
- The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
- A white or grayish powdery / moldy growth appears on the foliage, new shoots and buds.
- Severely infected seeds appear shriveled, cracked, and elongated, and may be covered with a white, moldy growth.
- Indeed, the only food he could find, and which starvation caused him to digest, was mouldy crusts of bread covered in mouse droppings.
- Beetles are frequently associated with poultry feed, preferring grain and cereal products that are damp, moldy and slightly out of condition.
- We never found out what was causing it, but I rather suspect that the carpets were mouldy from the damp.
- If a cork seems damp or mouldy at either end, this is not necessarily a sign of any wine fault.
- That was the last thing I wanted to smell and I emptied my already rather empty stomach onto the damp, moldy floor.
- She quietly reads a book, oblivious to the great pockmarks of peeling paint and disintegrating plaster of the moldy wall behind her.
- It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
- Jean-Baptiste Canelle, for that was his name, sat behind a table covered with moldy bread crusts, half burned candles, and beer-stains.
- We had to throw out many things which had just gone mouldy in the damp but that has at least meant that we can get to any place within the garage without having to climb over anything.
- Human exposure to biological contaminants in the air of damp and moldy indoor environments is a challenge for toxicological research and risk assessment.
- Cool and rainy weather in late spring induced moldy conditions in the cells that caused much larval mortality.
- He saw last weeks left over boiled potatoes, mouldy and covered with small dark flying insects.
Synonyms mildewed, mildewy, musty, mouldering, fusty - 1.1 Tediously old-fashioned.
陈腐的；过时的 陈腐的习俗。 Example sentencesExamples - Forget the moldy old slide-show party.
- They feel entitled to de-clutter their lives from those mouldy old ancestral obligations.
- He loved it until he played a chess game with moldy old Uncle Hooya… and lost.
Synonyms old-fashioned, outmoded, out of fashion, out of date, unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outdated, dated, out, outworn, old, former, dead, musty, old-time, old-world, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated - 1.2British informal Dull or depressing.
〈非正式，主英〉乏味的；令人沮丧的 evenings filled with moldy old shows 全都是老套而乏味表演的晚上。 Example sentencesExamples - Now this is more fun than mouldy old CDs - we had more snow this morning, from around 7: 30 am onwards.
- Not another mouldy old book to add to your ever growing collection!
- Capn's Final Word: More jangly versions of the same old moldy folk tunes that everyone else in the coffee shop knows by heart.
- And I'll be stuck slaving away in some moldy old courtroom, wondering ‘what if?’
- The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
- I remember where the Kitchen is, and I know I'm sick of moldy old food we've got.
- You can accept your moldy old science with its unanswered questions and stupid bland facts and its ‘rigorous analytical processes.’
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