adjective
- Covered with a layer of dust.
- usage: "a dusty pile of books"
- synonyms: dust-covered
- Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.
- usage: "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"
- synonyms: cold, stale, moth-eaten
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